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K81.0
Billable

Acute cholecystitis

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system

Inclusion Terms

7 items
  • Abscess of gallbladder
  • Angiocholecystitis
  • Emphysematous (acute) cholecystitis
  • Empyema of gallbladder
  • Gangrene of gallbladder
  • Gangrenous cholecystitis
  • Suppurative cholecystitis

Billable Code

K81.0 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

View documentation for acute cholecystitis
acute cholecystitis
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Acute Cholecystitis

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cholecystostomy tube
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Cholecystostomy Tube Placement

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.

Excludes1

1 item

From K81:

  • cholecystitis with cholelithiasis (K80.-)

Excludes2

8 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)

Use Additional Code

1 item

From K81:

  • code if applicable for associated gangrene of gallbladder (K82.A1), or perforation of gallbladder (K82.A2)
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