Inguinal hernia
Non-billable header
K40 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- acquired hernia
- congenital [except diaphragmatic or hiatus] hernia
- recurrent hernia
- bubonocele
- direct inguinal hernia
- double inguinal hernia
- indirect inguinal hernia
- inguinal hernia NOS
- oblique inguinal hernia
- scrotal hernia
- Note: Hernia with both gangrene and obstruction is classified to hernia with gangrene.
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)
More specific codes K40
- K40.0Bilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangreneHeader
- K40.1Bilateral inguinal hernia, with gangreneHeader
- K40.2Bilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangreneHeader
- K40.3Unilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangreneHeader
- K40.4Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangreneHeader
- K40.9Unilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangreneHeader