K51.0

K51.0: Ulcerative (chronic) pancolitis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

K51.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for ulcerative (chronic) pancolitis. 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.

Backwash ileitis

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above K51.0

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on K51: Ulcerative colitis

Crohn's disease [regional enteritis] (K50.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with K51.0

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

K50Crohn's disease [regional enteritis]
K62.6Ulcer of anus and rectum
K63.0Abscess of intestine
K63.2Fistula of intestine
K63.3Ulcer of intestine
R58Hemorrhage, not elsewhere classified

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 K51.0

2 child codes. Green means billable.