ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K55-K64 › K62 Other diseases of anus and rectum › K62.5

K62.5

Hemorrhage of anus and rectum

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 Hemorrhage of anus and rectum

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 K62 Other diseases of anus and rectum

Excludes2 - not included here

  • colostomy and enterostomy malfunction (K94.0-, K94.1-)
  • fecal incontinence (R15.-)
  • hemorrhoids (K64.-)

Includes

  • anal canal

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
K62.0 Anal polyp Valid
K62.1 Rectal polyp Valid
K62.2 Anal prolapse Valid
K62.3 Rectal prolapse Valid
K62.4 Stenosis of anus and rectum Valid
K62.6 Ulcer of anus and rectum Valid
K62.7 Radiation proctitis Valid
K62.8 Other specified diseases of anus and rectum Not billable
K62.9 Disease of anus and rectum, unspecified Valid