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

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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

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 > intraoperative
Complication > medical procedures
Complication > musculoskeletal system
Complication > surgical procedure > musculoskeletal
Complication > accidental puncture or laceration during a procedure
Complication > intraoperative > puncture or laceration > digestive system > during procedure on digestive system

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
K91.72	Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during other procedure	Valid