Acute pancreatitis, unspecified

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 only, and a category header from FY2017.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

K85.90 Acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection, unspecified
K85.91 Acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis, unspecified
K85.92 Acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis, unspecified

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 Acute pancreatitis, unspecified
FY2017 Stopped being billable

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 K85 Acute pancreatitis

Includes

acute (recurrent) pancreatitis
subacute pancreatitis

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
K85.0	Idiopathic acute pancreatitis	Not billable
K85.1	Biliary acute pancreatitis	Not billable
K85.2	Alcohol induced acute pancreatitis	Not billable
K85.3	Drug induced acute pancreatitis	Not billable
K85.8	Other acute pancreatitis	Not billable