K14.4 — Atrophy of tongue papillae
K14.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for atrophy of tongue papillae. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Atrophic glossitis
Other codes that can never be billed with K14.4
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at K14.4. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading K14.4 alone.
- K14.0Glossitis
Risk adjustment
K14.4 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How K14.4 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to K14.4.
- Bald tongue
- Glazed tongue
- Glossitis›atrophic
- Glossodynia›exfoliativa
- Papillitis›chronic lingual
- Atrophy, atrophic›tongue›papillae
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K14. If K14.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K14.4
- Is K14.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. K14.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does K14.4 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of oral cavity and salivary glands (K00-K14).