ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K20-K31 › K29 Gastritis and duodenitis › K29.2

K29.2

Alcoholic gastritis

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 2 more specific codes instead:

  • K29.20 Alcoholic gastritis without bleeding
  • K29.21 Alcoholic gastritis with bleeding

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 Alcoholic gastritis

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 K29 Gastritis and duodenitis

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.-)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
K29.0 Acute gastritis Not billable
K29.3 Chronic superficial gastritis Not billable
K29.4 Chronic atrophic gastritis Not billable
K29.5 Unspecified chronic gastritis Not billable
K29.6 Other gastritis Not billable
K29.7 Gastritis, unspecified Not billable
K29.8 Duodenitis Not billable
K29.9 Gastroduodenitis, unspecified Not billable