ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K55-K64 › K56.4 Other impaction of intestine › K56.41
Fecal impaction
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 2011 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.
- FY2011 Added to the draft code set draft Fecal impaction
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 K56 Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital stricture or stenosis of intestine (Q41-Q42)
- cystic fibrosis with meconium ileus (E84.11)
- ischemic stricture of intestine (K55.1)
- meconium ileus NOS (P76.0)
- neonatal intestinal obstructions classifiable to P76.-
- obstruction of duodenum (K31.5)
- postprocedural intestinal obstruction (K91.3-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- stenosis of anus or rectum (K62.4)
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
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Yellow > jaundice
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Impaction, impacted > intestine NEC
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Impaction, impacted > bowel, colon, rectum
- 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
- Fecalith
- Stercolith
- Impaction, impacted > fecal, feces
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > fecal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K56.49 | Other impaction of intestine | Valid |