K40
K40: Inguinal hernia
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K40 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for inguinal hernia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Includes
Conditions this code covers.
- bubonocele
- direct inguinal hernia
- double inguinal hernia
- indirect inguinal hernia
- inguinal hernia NOS
- oblique inguinal hernia
- scrotal hernia
Other codes that can never be billed with K40
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- I96Gangrene, not elsewhere classified
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 K40
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- K40.0Bilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene
- K40.1Bilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene
- K40.2Bilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene
- K40.3Unilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene
- K40.4Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene
- K40.9Unilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene