ICD-10-CM code "K43": Ventral hernia (2024)

Excludes

1. Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95)

   Type 2certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)

   Type 2certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

   Type 2complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)

   Type 2congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)

   Type 2endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)

   Type 2injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

   Type 2neoplasms (C00-D49)

   Type 2symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

2. Hernia (K40-K46)
3. Ventral hernia (K43)

Includes

1. Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95)
2. Hernia (K40-K46)

   Includesacquired hernia

   Includescongenital [except diaphragmatic or hiatus] hernia

   Includesrecurrent hernia

3. Ventral hernia (K43)

Subcategories

• Incisional hernia with obstruction, without gangrene (K43.0)
• Incisional hernia with gangrene (K43.1)
• Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)
• Parastomal hernia with obstruction, without gangrene (K43.3)
• Parastomal hernia with gangrene (K43.4)
• Parastomal hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.5)
• Other and unspecified ventral hernia with obstruction, without gangrene (K43.6)
• Other and unspecified ventral hernia with gangrene (K43.7)
• Ventral hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.9)