K31.2
K31.2: Hourglass stricture and stenosis of stomach
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
K31.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hourglass stricture and stenosis of stomach. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check K31.2 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
K31.2 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies: 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56389Billing and Coding: Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Visualization
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
- A57063Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
- A57414Billing and Coding: Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Diagnostic and Therapeutic)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Bilocular stomach
- Cascade stomach
- Deformity›cascade, stomach
- Stenosis, stenotic›stomach, hourglass
- Stricture›hourglass, of stomach
- Hourglass›stomach›stricture
- Stricture›stomach›hourglass
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under K31
- K31.0Acute dilatation of stomach
- K31.1Adult hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- K31.BHypertrophic pyloric stenosis, in childhood
- K31.3Pylorospasm, not elsewhere classified
- K31.4Gastric diverticulum
- K31.5Obstruction of duodenum
- K31.6Fistula of stomach and duodenum
- K31.7Polyp of stomach and duodenum
- K31.8Other specified diseases of stomach and duodenum
- K31.9Disease of stomach and duodenum, unspecified
- K31.AGastric intestinal metaplasia