ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K80-K87 › K83 Other diseases of biliary tract › K83.1
Obstruction of bile duct
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 Obstruction of bile duct
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 K83 Other diseases of biliary tract
Excludes1 - never coded here
- postcholecystectomy syndrome (K91.5)
Excludes2 - not included here
- conditions involving the gallbladder (K81-K82)
- conditions involving the cystic duct (K81-K82)
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
- Stroke > cryptogenic
- Disease, diseased > artery
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Infarct, infarction > cerebellar
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- 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
- Stasis > bile
- Cholestasis NEC
- Mirizzi's syndrome
- Syndrome > Mirizzi's
- Stricture > bile duct
- Jaundice > obstructive
- Stricture > common duct
- Jaundice > regurgitation
- Obliteration > bile duct
- Stricture > hepatic duct
- Obliteration > common duct
- Stricture > ampulla of Vater
- Stenosis, stenotic > bile duct
- Occlusion, occluded > bile duct
- Stenosis, stenotic > common duct
- Stenosis, stenotic > hepatic duct
- Stenosis, stenotic > ampulla of Vater
- Stenosis, stenotic > papilla of Vater
- Stenosis, stenotic > sphincter of Oddi
Showing 40 of 46 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K83.0 | Cholangitis | Not billable |
| K83.2 | Perforation of bile duct | Valid |
| K83.3 | Fistula of bile duct | Valid |
| K83.4 | Spasm of sphincter of Oddi | Valid |
| K83.5 | Biliary cyst | Valid |
| K83.8 | Other specified diseases of biliary tract | Valid |
| K83.9 | Disease of biliary tract, unspecified | Valid |