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K66.0
Billable

Peritoneal adhesions (postprocedural) (postinfection)

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system

Inclusion Terms

8 items
  • Adhesions (of) abdominal (wall)
  • Adhesions (of) diaphragm
  • Adhesions (of) intestine
  • Adhesions (of) male pelvis
  • Adhesions (of) omentum
  • Adhesions (of) stomach
  • Adhesive bands
  • Mesenteric adhesions

Excludes1

1 item
  • peritoneal adhesions with intestinal obstruction (K56.5-)

Excludes2

2 items
  • female pelvic adhesions [bands] (N73.6)
  • female pelvic postprocedural adhesions (N99.4)

Billable Code

K66.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

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delivery complicated by adhesions
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Delivery complicated by adhesions

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Excludes2

10 items

From K00-K95:

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

From K66:

  • ascites (R18.-)
  • peritoneal effusion (chronic) (R18.8)
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