Esophageal obstruction
Billable / specific
K22.2 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
- Compression of esophagus
- Constriction of esophagus
- Stenosis of esophagus
- Stricture of esophagus
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- congenital stenosis or stricture of esophagus (Q39.3)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K22)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K22)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K22)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K22)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K22)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K22)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K22)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K22)
- hiatus hernia (K44.-) (from K22)
- esophageal varices (I85.-) (from K22)
Also known as
- Compression of esophagus
- Constriction of esophagus
- Stenosis of esophagus
- Stricture of esophagus
- Cicatrix, esophagus
- Compression, esophagus
- Constriction, esophagus
- Esophagostenosis
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive, cardia
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive, esophagus
- Ring, esophageal, lower
- Ring, Schatzki's
- Schatzki's ring
- Stenosis, stenotic, cardia
- Stenosis, stenotic, esophagus
- Stricture, cardia
- Stricture, cardiac, orifice
- Stricture, esophagus
Parent code
- K22Other diseases of esophagusHeader
Related codes
- K22.0Achalasia of cardiaBillable
- K22.1Ulcer of esophagusHeader
- K22.3Perforation of esophagusBillable
- K22.4Dyskinesia of esophagusBillable
- K22.5Diverticulum of esophagus, acquiredBillable
- K22.6Gastro-esophageal laceration-hemorrhage syndromeBillable
- K22.7Barrett's esophagusHeader
- K22.8Other specified diseases of esophagusHeader
- K22.9Disease of esophagus, unspecifiedBillable