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K91.7

Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a procedure

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 2 more specific codes instead:

  • K91.71 Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a digestive system procedure
  • K91.72 Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during other procedure

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 Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a procedure

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)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
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
K91.5 Postcholecystectomy syndrome Valid
K91.6 Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a digestive system organ or structure complicating a procedure Not billable
K91.8 Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system Not billable