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ICD-10 K51 - Ulcerative colitis
Chapter 11 Section K50-K52

K51

ICD-10 Not billable

Ulcerative colitis

Use additional code:
  • code to identify manifestations, such as:
  • pyoderma gangrenosum (L88)
Specifically for this code:
  • Crohn's disease [regional enteritis] (K50.-)
From Section K50-K52:
  • irritable bowel syndrome (K58.-)
  • megacolon (K59.3-)
From Chapter 11:
  • 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 Section K50-K52:
  • noninfective inflammatory bowel disease
K51 is a "category code," which means it's non-billable. Billable codes require more specificity. Use the list below to navigate to codes that are more specific:
10
K51.0
Ulcerative (chronic) pancolitis
10
K51.2
Ulcerative (chronic) proctitis
10
K51.3
Ulcerative (chronic) rectosigmoiditis
10
K51.4
Inflammatory polyps of colon
10
K51.5
Left sided colitis
10
K51.8
Other ulcerative colitis
10
K51.9
Ulcerative colitis, unspecified
      
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