K57.0
K57.0: Diverticulitis of small intestine with perforation and abscess
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K57.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for diverticulitis of small intestine with perforation and abscess. 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.
- diverticulitis of both small and large intestine with perforation and abscess (K57.4-)
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above K57.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above K57.0
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with K57.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 K57.0
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under K57
- K57.1Diverticular disease of small intestine without perforation or abscess
- K57.2Diverticulitis of large intestine with perforation and abscess
- K57.3Diverticular disease of large intestine without perforation or abscess
- K57.4Diverticulitis of both small and large intestine with perforation and abscess
- K57.5Diverticular disease of both small and large intestine without perforation or abscess
- K57.8Diverticulitis of intestine, part unspecified, with perforation and abscess
- K57.9Diverticular disease of intestine, part unspecified, without perforation or abscess