Anal sphincter tear (healed) (nontraumatic) (old)
Billable / specific
K62.81 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
- Tear of anus, nontraumatic
Includes (from K62)
- anal canal
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- anal fissure (K60.-)
- anal sphincter tear (healed) (old) complicating delivery (O34.7-)
- traumatic tear of anal sphincter (S31.831)
- ulcerative proctitis (K51.2) (from K62.8)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K62)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K62)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K62)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K62)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K62)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K62)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K62)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K62)
- colostomy and enterostomy malfunction (K94.0-, K94.1-) (from K62)
- fecal incontinence (R15.-) (from K62)
- hemorrhoids (K64.-) (from K62)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code for any associated fecal incontinence (R15.-)
Also known as
- Tear of anus, nontraumatic
- Tear, torn, anus, anal, nontraumatic
Parent code
- K62.8Other specified diseases of anus and rectumHeader