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K64

Hemorrhoids and perianal venous thrombosis

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 8 more specific codes instead:

  • K64.0 First degree hemorrhoids
  • K64.1 Second degree hemorrhoids
  • K64.2 Third degree hemorrhoids
  • K64.3 Fourth degree hemorrhoids
  • K64.4 Residual hemorrhoidal skin tags
  • K64.5 Perianal venous thrombosis
  • K64.8 Other hemorrhoids
  • K64.9 Unspecified hemorrhoids

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 Hemorrhoids and perianal venous thrombosis

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

  • hemorrhoids complicating childbirth and the puerperium (O87.2)
  • hemorrhoids complicating pregnancy (O22.4)

Includes

  • piles