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K90

Intestinal malabsorption

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 7 more specific codes instead:

  • K90.0 Celiac disease
  • K90.1 Tropical sprue
  • K90.2 Blind loop syndrome, not elsewhere classified
  • K90.3 Pancreatic steatorrhea
  • K90.4 Other malabsorption due to intolerance (also a header)
  • K90.8 Other intestinal malabsorption (also a header)
  • K90.9 Intestinal malabsorption, unspecified

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 Intestinal malabsorption

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

  • intestinal malabsorption following gastrointestinal surgery (K91.2)