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K06.0

K06.0: Gingival recession

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

K06.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for gingival recession. 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.

  • Gingival recession (postinfective) (postprocedural)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above K06.0

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on K06: Other disorders of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridge

  • acute gingivitis (K05.0)
  • atrophy of edentulous alveolar ridge (K08.2)
  • chronic gingivitis (K05.1)
  • gingivitis NOS (K05.1)

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 K06.0

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under K06

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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