K41.40 — Unilateral femoral hernia, with gangrene, not specified as recurrent
K41.40 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unilateral femoral hernia, with gangrene, not specified as recurrent. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Femoral hernia, with gangrene NOS
- Unilateral femoral hernia, with gangrene NOS
Risk adjustment
K41.40 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.
Medicare coverage
K41.40 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How K41.40 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to K41.40.
- Hernia, hernial›femoral›with›gangrene(and obstruction)
- Hernia, hernial›femoral›unilateral›with›gangrene(and obstruction)
- Hernia, hernial›femoral›with›gangrene›not specified as recurrent
- Hernia, hernial›femoral›unilateral›with›gangrene›not specified as recurrent
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K41.4. If K41.40 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K41.40
- Is K41.40 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. K41.40 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does K41.40 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Hernia (K40-K46).