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K29

Gastritis and duodenitis

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:

  • K29.0 Acute gastritis (also a header)
  • K29.2 Alcoholic gastritis (also a header)
  • K29.3 Chronic superficial gastritis (also a header)
  • K29.4 Chronic atrophic gastritis (also a header)
  • K29.5 Unspecified chronic gastritis (also a header)
  • K29.6 Other gastritis (also a header)
  • K29.7 Gastritis, unspecified (also a header)
  • K29.8 Duodenitis (also a header)
  • K29.9 Gastroduodenitis, unspecified (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Gastritis and duodenitis

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • eosinophilic gastritis or gastroenteritis (K52.81)
  • Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (E16.4)

Inherited from the K20-K31 section Diseases of esophagus, stomach and duodenum (K20-K31)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • hiatus hernia (K44.-)