K85 — Acute pancreatitis
Not billable
Is K85 billable?
No — K85 is a non-billable header code. K85 groups more specific codes and cannot be submitted on a claim. A valid ICD-10-CM code must be reported at the highest level of specificity available in its branch. Select one of the 18 billable codes beneath K85.
Billable codes under this header
- K85.00Idiopathic acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection
- K85.01Idiopathic acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis
- K85.02Idiopathic acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis
- K85.10Biliary acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection
- K85.11Biliary acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis
- K85.12Biliary acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis
- K85.20Alcohol induced acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection
- K85.21Alcohol induced acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis
- K85.22Alcohol induced acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis
- K85.30Drug induced acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection
- K85.31Drug induced acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis
- K85.32Drug induced acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis
- K85.80Other acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection
- K85.81Other acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis
- K85.82Other acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis
- K85.90Acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection, unspecified
- K85.91Acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis, unspecified
- K85.92Acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis, unspecified
K85 at a glance
| Code | K85 |
|---|---|
| Description | Acute pancreatitis |
| Billable | No — header code |
| Code set | ICD-10-CM FY2027 |
| Valid for encounters | October 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027 |
Includes
Conditions classified to K85.
- acute (recurrent) pancreatitis
- subacute pancreatitis
Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from Chapter 11
The conditions below are not part of K85, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, K85 and the excluded code may both be reported.
- 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)
What codes fall under K85? (6)
How long has K85 existed?
K85 has been in ICD-10-CM since at least FY2016, the earliest fiscal year on record here.
Derived from the official order files for FY2016–FY2026. FY2017 and FY2020 publish no order file, so those years are not covered.