ICD-10-CM Codes
K00-K95
K20-K31
K20-
2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K20.91

2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K20.91

Esophagitis, unspecified with bleeding

2021 - New Code

2022

2023

Billable/Specific Code

K20.91 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM K20.91 became effective on October 1, 2022.
This is the American ICD-10-CM version of K20.91 - other international versions of ICD-10 K20.91 may differ.

The following code(s) above K20.91 contain annotation back-references

Annotation Back-References

In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:

Applicable To annotations, or
Code Also annotations, or
Code First annotations, or
Excludes1 annotations, or
Excludes2 annotations, or
Includes annotations, or
Note annotations, or
Use Additional annotations

that may be applicable to K20.91:

K00-K95
2023 ICD-10-CM Range K00-K95
Diseases of the digestive system
Type 2 Excludes
- 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)
Diseases of the digestive system
K20-K31
2023 ICD-10-CM Range K20-K31
Diseases of esophagus, stomach and duodenum
Type 2 Excludes
- hiatus hernia (K44.-)
Diseases of esophagus, stomach and duodenum
K20
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K20
Esophagitis
Type 1 Excludes
- erosion of esophagus (K22.1-)
- esophagitis with gastro-esophageal reflux disease (K21.0-)
- reflux esophagitis (K21.0-)
- ulcerative esophagitis (K22.1-)
Type 2 Excludes
- eosinophilic gastritis or gastroenteritis (K52.81)
Use Additional
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
Esophagitis

ICD-10-CM K20.91 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v40.0):

368 Major esophageal disorders with mcc
369 Major esophageal disorders with cc
370 Major esophageal disorders without cc/mcc

Code History

2021 (effective 10/1/2020): New code
2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to K20.91:

Esophagitis (acute) (alkaline) (chemical) (chronic) (infectional) (necrotic) (peptic) (postoperative) (without bleeding) K20.90
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K20.90
Esophagitis, unspecified without bleeding
Applicable To
Esophagitis NOS
- with bleeding K20.91

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To K20.91

K14.6 Glossodynia

K14.8 Other diseases of tongue

K14.9 Disease of tongue, unspecified

K20 Esophagitis

K20.0 Eosinophilic esophagitis

K20.8 Other esophagitis

K20.80 …… without bleeding

K20.81 …… with bleeding

K20.9 Esophagitis, unspecified

K20.90 …… without bleeding

K20.91 …… with bleeding

K21 Gastro-esophageal reflux disease

K21.0 Gastro-esophageal reflux disease with esophagitis

K21.00 …… without bleeding

K21.01 …… with bleeding

K21.9 Gastro-esophageal reflux disease without esophagitis

K22 Other diseases of esophagus

K22.0 Achalasia of cardia

K22.1 Ulcer of esophagus

K22.10 …… without bleeding

K22.11 …… with bleeding

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.