Gastro-esophageal reflux disease with esophagitis
Non-billable header
K21.0 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K21)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K21)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K21)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K21)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K21)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K21)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K21)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K21)
- hiatus hernia (K44.-) (from K21)
Parent code
- K21Gastro-esophageal reflux diseaseHeader
More specific codes K21.0
Related codes
- K21.9Gastro-esophageal reflux disease without esophagitisBillable