K56.6
Other and unspecified intestinal obstruction
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
K56.6 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for other and unspecified intestinal obstruction. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are K56.60 Unspecified intestinal obstruction and K56.69 Other intestinal obstruction. Its coding notes include 7 Excludes1 entries and 9 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
Inherited from K56 Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Inherited from K56 Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia
- stenosis of anus or rectum (K62.4)
Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 11 Diseases of the digestive system
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)