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K80.5

K80.5: Calculus of bile duct without cholangitis or cholecystitis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

K80.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for calculus of bile duct without cholangitis or cholecystitis. 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.

  • Choledocholithiasis (without cholangitis or cholecystitis)
  • Gallstone (impacted) of bile duct NOS (without cholangitis or cholecystitis)
  • Gallstone (impacted) of common duct (without cholangitis or cholecystitis)
  • Gallstone (impacted) of hepatic duct (without cholangitis or cholecystitis)
  • Hepatic cholelithiasis (without cholangitis or cholecystitis)
  • Hepatic colic (recurrent) (without cholangitis or cholecystitis)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above K80.5

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on K80: Cholelithiasis

  • retained cholelithiasis following cholecystectomy (K91.86)

Other codes that can never be billed with K80.5

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

  • K81Cholecystitis
  • K82.0Obstruction of gallbladder
  • K82.4Cholesterolosis of gallbladder
  • K83.1Obstruction of bile duct

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 K80.5

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under K80

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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