K14.5 — Plicated tongue
K14.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for plicated tongue. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- fissured tongue, congenital (Q38.3)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Fissured tongue
- Furrowed tongue
- Scrotal tongue
Risk adjustment
K14.5 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 K14.5 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 K14.5.
- Furrowed
- Grooved tongue
- Plicated tongue
- Scrotal tongue
- Fissure, fissured›tongue(acquired)
- Furrowed›tongue
- Lingua›plicata
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K14. If K14.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K14.5
- Is K14.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. K14.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does K14.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of oral cavity and salivary glands (K00-K14).
- What cannot be coded together with K14.5?
- K14.5 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.