K27.5
Chronic or unspecified peptic ulcer, site unspecified, with perforation
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 8 more
specific codes sit alongside it. Worth
checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 10 never code together
K00-K95chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 4
Index entries leading here 1
Alongside this code 8 same parent — K27
K27.0 Acute peptic ulcer, site unspecified, with hemorrhage K27.1 Acute peptic ulcer, site unspecified, with perforation K27.2 Acute peptic ulcer, site unsp, w both hemorrhage and perf K27.3 Acute peptic ulcer, site unsp, w/o hemorrhage or perforation K27.4 Chronic or unsp peptic ulcer, site unsp, with hemorrhage K27.6 Chr or unsp peptic ulcer, site unsp, w both hemor and perf K27.7 Chronic peptic ulcer, site unsp, w/o hemorrhage or perf K27.9 Peptic ulc, site unsp, unsp as ac or chr, w/o hemor or perf
Medications 2
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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