K91.7Accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a procedure

K91.7 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a procedure. It belongs to category K91 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system, not elsewhere classified), block K90-K95 (other diseases of the digestive system) and chapter 11 (diseases of the digestive system). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 2 subcodes must be used instead.

Within K91 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system, not elsewhere classified), K91.7 is specifically for accidental puncture and laceration of a digestive system organ or structure during a procedure. Related codes cover vomiting following gastrointestinal surgery (K91.0), Postgastric surgery syndromes (K91.1), postsurgical malabsorption, not elsewhere classified (K91.2), postprocedural intestinal obstruction (K91.3), Postcholecystectomy syndrome (K91.5), intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a digestive system organ or structure complicating a procedure (K91.6) and other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of digestive system (K91.8).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: K91.71 (procedure) and K91.72 (procedure).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.