K05.229BillableSave

K05.229 - Aggressive periodontitis, generalized, unspecified severity

ICD-10-CM Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system · K00-K14 Diseases of oral cavity and salivary glands (K00-K14) · Subcategory of K05.22 · FY2027

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom K05.2

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • acute apical periodontitis (K04.4)
  • periapical abscess (K04.7)
  • periapical abscess with sinus (K04.6)
Use Additional CodeFrom K05

Add a secondary code to identify the associated condition or cause when it is documented.

  • code to identify:
  • alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
  • exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
  • exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
  • tobacco dependence (F17.-)
  • tobacco use (Z72.0)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter K00-K95

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • 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)

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