K40.0
K40.0 — Bilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMbilateral
K40.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for bilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Inguinal hernia (bilateral) causing obstruction without gangrene
- Incarcerated inguinal hernia (bilateral) without gangrene
- Irreducible inguinal hernia (bilateral) without gangrene
- Strangulated inguinal hernia (bilateral) without gangrene
Risk adjustment
K40.0 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 K40.0
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K40. If K40.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K40.0
- Is K40.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K40.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K40.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Hernia (K40-K46).