K90.82
Short bowel syndrome
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
K90.82 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for short bowel syndrome. 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 K90.821 Short bowel syndrome with colon in continuity; K90.822 Short bowel syndrome without colon in continuity and K90.829 Short bowel syndrome, unspecified. Its coding notes include 2 Excludes1 entries and 8 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
This code
- postsurgical malabsorption, not elsewhere classified (K91.2)
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
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)
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
This code
- Short gut syndrome