K04.0
K04.0: Pulpitis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K04.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pulpitis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Acute pulpitis
- Chronic (hyperplastic) (ulcerative) pulpitis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead K04.0
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under K04
- K04.1Necrosis of pulp
- K04.2Pulp degeneration
- K04.3Abnormal hard tissue formation in pulp
- K04.4Acute apical periodontitis of pulpal origin
- K04.5Chronic apical periodontitis
- K04.6Periapical abscess with sinus
- K04.7Periapical abscess without sinus
- K04.8Radicular cyst
- K04.9Other and unspecified diseases of pulp and periapical tissues