K45.0 — Other specified abdominal hernia with obstruction, without gangrene
K45.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified abdominal hernia with obstruction, without gangrene. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Other specified abdominal hernia causing obstruction
- Other specified incarcerated abdominal hernia
- Other specified irreducible abdominal hernia
- Other specified strangulated abdominal hernia
Risk adjustment
K45.0 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.
Medicare coverage
K45.0 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies — 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
- A57063Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
How K45.0 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 K45.0.
- Hernia, hernial›abdomen, abdominal›specified site NEC›with›obstruction
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K45. If K45.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K45.0
- Is K45.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. K45.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does K45.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Hernia (K40-K46).