Other appendicitis
Billable / specific
K36 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
- Chronic appendicitis
- Recurrent appendicitis
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- 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)
Also known as
- Chronic appendicitis
- Recurrent appendicitis
- Appendicitis, chronic
- Appendicitis, healed
- Appendicitis, interval
- Appendicitis, neurogenic
- Appendicitis, obstructive
- Appendicitis, recurrent
- Appendicitis, relapsing
- Appendicitis, subacute
- Appendicitis, subsiding
- Subsiding appendicitis