K91.8
K91.8: Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K91.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above K91.8
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on K91: Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system, not elsewhere classified
Other codes that can never be billed with K91.8
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 K91.8
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- K91.81Other intraoperative complications of digestive system
- K91.82Postprocedural hepatic failure
- K91.83Postprocedural hepatorenal syndrome
- K91.84Postprocedural hemorrhage of a digestive system organ or structure following a procedure
- K91.85Complications of intestinal pouch
- K91.86Retained cholelithiasis following cholecystectomy
- K91.87Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a digestive system organ or structure following a procedure
- K91.89Other postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system
Other codes under K91
- K91.0Vomiting following gastrointestinal surgery
- K91.1Postgastric surgery syndromes
- K91.2Postsurgical malabsorption, not elsewhere classified
- K91.3Postprocedural intestinal obstruction
- K91.5Postcholecystectomy syndrome
- K91.6Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a digestive system organ or structure complicating a procedure
- K91.7Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a procedure