K31.A
K31.A — Gastric intestinal metaplasia
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K31.A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for gastric intestinal metaplasia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
K31.A 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.
Code to one of these instead K31.A
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K31. If K31.A is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- K31.0Acute dilatation of stomach
- K31.1Adult hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- K31.2Hourglass stricture and stenosis of stomach
- 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
Questions about K31.A
- Is K31.A a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K31.A is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K31.A sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of esophagus, stomach and duodenum (K20-K31).