K91.840 — Postprocedural hemorrhage of a digestive system organ or structure following a digestive system procedure
K91.840 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for postprocedural hemorrhage of a digestive system organ or structure following a digestive system procedure. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
K91.840 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.
Medicare coverage
K91.840 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
- A56682Billing and Coding: Diagnostic Abdominal Aortography and Renal Angiography
- A57056Billing and Coding: Aortography and Peripheral Angiography
How K91.840 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to K91.840.
- Bleeding›tooth socket(post-extraction)
- Complication›postprocedural›hemorrhage›digestive system›following procedure on digestive system
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K91.84. If K91.840 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K91.840
- Is K91.840 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. K91.840 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does K91.840 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Other diseases of the digestive system (K90-K95).