ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K55-K64 › K62 Other diseases of anus and rectum › K62.6
Ulcer of anus and rectum
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 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Ulcer 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.
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > bowel
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > cecum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > colon
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > ileum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > sigmoid
- Stercoraceous, stercoral ulcer > anus or rectum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > anus
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > rectum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > anorectal
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > solitary, anus or rectum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > intestine, intestinal > rectum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > rectum > stercoraceous, stercoral
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > stercoraceous, stercoral > anus or rectum
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| K62.5 | Hemorrhage 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 |