Chronic apical periodontitis
Billable / specific
K04.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Apical or periapical granuloma
- Apical periodontitis NOS
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- chronic periodontitis (K05.3-)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K04)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K04)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K04)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K04)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K04)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K04)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K04)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K04)
Also known as
- Apical or periapical granuloma
- Apical periodontitis NOS
- Granuloma, apical
- Granuloma, dental
- Granuloma, periapical
- Granuloma, pyogenic, pyogenicum, maxillary alveolar ridge
- Infection, infected, infective, periapical
- Periodontitis, apical
Parent code
- K04Diseases of pulp and periapical tissuesHeader
Related codes
- K04.0PulpitisHeader
- K04.1Necrosis of pulpBillable
- K04.2Pulp degenerationBillable
- K04.3Abnormal hard tissue formation in pulpBillable
- K04.4Acute apical periodontitis of pulpal originBillable
- K04.6Periapical abscess with sinusBillable
- K04.7Periapical abscess without sinusBillable
- K04.8Radicular cystBillable
- K04.9Other and unspecified diseases of pulp and periapical tissuesHeader