ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K20-K31 › K22 Other diseases of esophagus › K22.2
Esophageal obstruction
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Esophageal obstruction
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from K22 Other diseases of esophagus
Excludes2 - not included here
- esophageal varices (I85.-)
Inherited from the K20-K31 section Diseases of esophagus, stomach and duodenum (K20-K31)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hiatus hernia (K44.-)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Cicatrix
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Yellow > jaundice
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Schatzki's ring
- Esophagostenosis
- Ring > Schatzki's
- Stricture > cardia
- Cicatrix > esophagus
- Stricture > esophagus
- Compression > esophagus
- Constriction > esophagus
- Ring > esophageal, lower
- Stenosis, stenotic > cardia
- Stricture > cardiac > orifice
- Stenosis, stenotic > esophagus
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > cardia
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > esophagus
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K22.0 | Achalasia of cardia | Valid |
| K22.1 | Ulcer of esophagus | Not billable |
| K22.3 | Perforation of esophagus | Valid |
| K22.4 | Dyskinesia of esophagus | Valid |
| K22.5 | Diverticulum of esophagus, acquired | Valid |
| K22.6 | Gastro-esophageal laceration-hemorrhage syndrome | Valid |
| K22.7 | Barrett's esophagus | Not billable |
| K22.8 | Other specified diseases of esophagus | Not billable |
| K22.9 | Disease of esophagus, unspecified | Valid |