Acute cholecystitis
Billable / specific
K81.0 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
- Abscess of gallbladder
- Angiocholecystitis
- Emphysematous (acute) cholecystitis
- Empyema of gallbladder
- Gangrene of gallbladder
- Gangrenous cholecystitis
- Suppurative cholecystitis
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 K81)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K81)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K81)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K81)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K81)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K81)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K81)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K81)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Abscess of gallbladder
- Angiocholecystitis
- Emphysematous (acute) cholecystitis
- Empyema of gallbladder
- Gangrene of gallbladder
- Gangrenous cholecystitis
- Suppurative cholecystitis
- Abscess, gallbladder
- Cholecystitis, acute
- Empyema, gallbladder
- Gallbladder, acute
- Septic, gallbladder
- Suppuration, suppurative, gallbladder
Parent code
- K81CholecystitisHeader