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ICD-10-CM Code for Other specified diseases of gallbladder K82.8

ICD-10 code K82.8 for Other specified diseases of gallbladder is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Diseases of the digestive system .

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Other specified diseases of gallbladder
Adhesions of cystic duct or gallbladder
Atrophy of cystic duct or gallbladder
Cyst of cystic duct or gallbladder
Dyskinesia of cystic duct or gallbladder
Hypertrophy of cystic duct or gallbladder
Nonfunctioning of cystic duct or gallbladder
Ulcer of cystic duct or gallbladde

K82

Excludes1: nonvisualization of gallbladder (R93.2)
postcholecystectomy syndrome (K91.5)

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Recent Pathology Denial Trends
Hi Pathology Colleagues, I wanted to address a few recent denials I am seeing and alert you so that together, we can be proactive coding these scenarios. First, you receive the EOB (Explanation of B... [ Read More ]
DX code denial as principal dx- Infectious Disease
Did you bill K82.1 or K81.1 as primary? K81.1 should work but K82.1 would not be a correct primary code. There's a 'code first' note in the tabular list under K82.A- which tell you that you need a c... [ Read More ]
DX code denial as principal dx- Infectious Disease
I work for an infectious disease office. I billed K82.A2, D72.829,R50.9 on this same order and it was denied for invalid principal dx. I then billed K82.1 as primary and then K82.A2, D72.829,R50.9 ,a... [ Read More ]
DX for ACUTE and CHRONIC Cholecystitis with....
[b]reply - DX for Acute and Chronic Cholecystistis with Choleliatiasis[/b] Hi, I don't have the full pathology report but with the limited amount of information provided K80.12, however if there was ... [ Read More ]
DX for ACUTE and CHRONIC Cholecystitis with....
Hi there! These diagnoses come through very often here and I, myself, use two codes K80.12 (calculus of gallbladder with acute and chronic cholecystitis without obstruction) K82.4 (cholesterolosis of... [ Read More ]
DX for Chronic Cholecystitis with....
No you cannot code the K80.10 with the K82.4. There is an exclude 1 exclusion with this combination. Code only the K80.10... [ Read More ]
DX for Chronic Cholecystitis with....
If you follow CHOLECYSTITIS > WITH > CHOLELITHIASIS - see Calculus, gallbladder, with cholecystitis CALCULUS > GALLBLADDER > WITH > CHOLECYSTITIS K80.10 > CHRONIC K80.10 CHOLESTEROLOSIS, CHOLESTEROS... [ Read More ]
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