Hernia Inguinalis Icd 10

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2020 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K40.90

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Billable/Specific Code

• K40.90 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
• Short description: Unil inguinal hernia, w/o obst or gangr, not spcf as recur
• The 2020 edition of ICD-10-CM K40.90 became effective on October 1, 2019.
• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of K40.90 - other international versions of ICD-10 K40.90 may differ.

Applicable To

• Inguinal hernia NOS
• Unilateral inguinal hernia NOS

The following code(s) above K40.90 contain annotation back-references

Annotation Back-References

In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:

• Applicable To annotations, or
• Code Also annotations, or
• Code First annotations, or
• Excludes1 annotations, or
• Excludes2 annotations, or
• Includes annotations, or
• Note annotations, or
• Use Additional annotations

that may be applicable to K40.90:

• K00-K95

  2020 ICD-10-CM Range K00-K95

  Diseases of the digestive system

  Type 2 Excludes

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

  Diseases of the digestive system
• K40-K46

  2020 ICD-10-CM Range K40-K46

  Hernia

  Includes

  • acquired hernia
  • congenital [except diaphragmatic or hiatus] hernia
  • recurrent hernia

  Note

  • Hernia with both gangrene and obstruction is classified to hernia with gangrene.

  Hernia
• K40

  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K40

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code

  Includes

  • bubonocele
  • direct inguinal hernia
  • double inguinal hernia
  • indirect inguinal hernia
  • inguinal hernia NOS
  • oblique inguinal hernia
  • scrotal hernia

  Inguinal hernia

Approximate Synonyms

• Direct inguinal hernia
• Indirect inguinal hernia
• Inguinal hernia
• Left direct inguinal hernia
• Left indirect inguinal hernia
• Left inguinal hernia
• Right direct inguinal hernia
• Right indirect inguinal hernia
• Right inguinal hernia

Clinical Information

• An abdominal hernia with an external bulge in the groin region. It can be classified by the location of herniation. Indirect inguinal hernias occur through the internal inguinal ring. Direct inguinal hernias occur through defects in the abdominal wall (transversalis fascia) in hesselbach's triangle. The former type is commonly seen in children and young adults; the latter in adults.
• The protrusion of a sac-like structure containing fibroadipose tissue through an abnormal opening in the inguinal region.

ICD-10-CM K40.90 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v37.0):

• 393 Other digestive system diagnoses with mcc
• 394 Other digestive system diagnoses with cc
• 395 Other digestive system diagnoses without cc/mcc

Convert K40.90 to ICD-9-CM

Code History

• 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
• 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
• 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
• 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
• 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to K40.90:

• Hernia, hernial (acquired) (recurrent) K46.9

  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K46.9

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Billable/Specific Code

  Applicable To

  • inguinal (direct) (external) (funicular) (indirect) (internal) (oblique) (scrotal) (sliding) K40.90
    • unilateral K40.90
      • not specified as recurrent K40.90
    • not specified as recurrent K40.90

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To K40.90

K40.2 Bilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene

K40.20 …… not specified as recurrent

K40.21 …… recurrent

K40.3 Unilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene

K40.30 …… not specified as recurrent

K40.31 …… recurrent

K40.4 Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene

K40.40 …… not specified as recurrent

K40.41 …… recurrent

K40.9 Unilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene

K40.90 …… not specified as recurrent

K40.91 …… recurrent

K41.0 Bilateral femoral hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene

K41.00 …… not specified as recurrent

K41.01 …… recurrent

K41.1 Bilateral femoral hernia, with gangrene

K41.10 …… not specified as recurrent

K41.11 …… recurrent

K41.2 Bilateral femoral hernia, without obstruction or gangrene

K41.20 …… not specified as recurrent

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.

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