K55.0
K55.0 — Acute vascular disorders of intestine
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K55.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute vascular disorders of intestine. 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.
- Infarction of appendices epiploicae
- Mesenteric (artery) (vein) embolism
- Mesenteric (artery) (vein) infarction
- Mesenteric (artery) (vein) thrombosis
Risk adjustment
K55.0 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.
Code to one of these instead K55.0
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- K55.01Acute (reversible) ischemia of small intestine
- K55.02Acute infarction of small intestine
- K55.03Acute (reversible) ischemia of large intestine
- K55.04Acute infarction of large intestine
- K55.05Acute (reversible) ischemia of intestine, part unspecified
- K55.06Acute infarction of intestine, part unspecified
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K55. If K55.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K55.0
- Is K55.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K55.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K55.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Other diseases of intestines (K55-K64).