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K28.5

Chronic or unspecified gastrojejunal ulcer with perforation

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Chronic or unspecified gastrojejunal ulcer with perforation

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 K28 Gastrojejunal ulcer

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • primary ulcer of small intestine (K63.3)

Use additional code

  • code to identify:
  • alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)

Includes

  • anastomotic ulcer (peptic) or erosion
  • gastrocolic ulcer (peptic) or erosion
  • gastrointestinal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
  • gastrojejunal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
  • jejunal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
  • marginal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
  • stomal ulcer (peptic) or erosion

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
K28.0 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer with hemorrhage Valid
K28.1 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer with perforation Valid
K28.2 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer with both hemorrhage and perforation Valid
K28.3 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer without hemorrhage or perforation Valid
K28.4 Chronic or unspecified gastrojejunal ulcer with hemorrhage Valid
K28.6 Chronic or unspecified gastrojejunal ulcer with both hemorrhage and perforation Valid
K28.7 Chronic gastrojejunal ulcer without hemorrhage or perforation Valid
K28.9 Gastrojejunal ulcer, unspecified as acute or chronic, without hemorrhage or perforation Valid