ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K90-K95 › K91 Intraoperative and postprocedural... › K91.5
Postcholecystectomy syndrome
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 Postcholecystectomy syndrome
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 K91 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 - not included here
- complications of artificial opening of digestive system (K94.-)
- complications of bariatric procedures (K95.-)
- gastrojejunal ulcer (K28.-)
- postprocedural (radiation) retroperitoneal abscess (K68.11)
- radiation colitis (K52.0)
- radiation gastroenteritis (K52.0)
- radiation proctitis (K62.7)
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.
- Disorder > postprocedural
- Complication > postoperative
- Disorder > eye > postprocedural
- Disorder > digestive > postprocedural
- Complication > surgical procedure > digestive system
- Complication > surgical procedure > gastrointestinal
- Postcholecystectomy syndrome
- Syndrome > cystic duct stump
- Syndrome > postcholecystectomy
- Remnant > cystic duct, postcholecystectomy
- Complication > surgical procedure > postcholecystectomy syndrome
- Complication > gastrointestinal > postoperative > postcholecystectomy syndrome
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K91.0 | Vomiting following gastrointestinal surgery | Valid |
| K91.1 | Postgastric surgery syndromes | Valid |
| K91.2 | Postsurgical malabsorption, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| K91.3 | Postprocedural intestinal obstruction | Not billable |
| K91.6 | Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a digestive system organ or structure complicating a procedure | Not billable |
| K91.7 | Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a procedure | Not billable |
| K91.8 | Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system | Not billable |