K50.1

K50.1: Crohn's disease of large intestine

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

K50.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for crohn's disease of large intestine. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

Crohn's disease of both small and large intestine (K50.8)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Crohn's disease [regional enteritis] of colon
Crohn's disease [regional enteritis] of large bowel
Crohn's disease [regional enteritis] of rectum
Granulomatous colitis
Regional colitis

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above K50.1

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on K50: Crohn's disease [regional enteritis]

ulcerative colitis (K51.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with K50.1

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

E55.0Rickets, active
K51Ulcerative colitis
K63.0Abscess of intestine
K63.2Fistula of intestine

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 K50.1

2 child codes. Green means billable.