K41.1
K41.1 — Bilateral femoral hernia, with gangrene
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMbilateral
K41.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for bilateral femoral hernia, with gangrene. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with K41.1
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at K41.1. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading K41.1 alone.
- I96Gangrene, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
K41.1 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 K41.1
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K41. If K41.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- K41.0Bilateral femoral hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene
- K41.2Bilateral femoral hernia, without obstruction or gangrene
- K41.3Unilateral femoral hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene
- K41.4Unilateral femoral hernia, with gangrene
- K41.9Unilateral femoral hernia, without obstruction or gangrene
Questions about K41.1
- Is K41.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K41.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K41.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Hernia (K40-K46).