K28.5
Chronic or unspecified gastrojejunal ulcer 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 9
K28code
Includes
- anastomotic ulcer (peptic) or erosion
- gastrocolic ulcer (peptic) or erosion
- gastrointestinal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
- gastrojejunal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
- jejunal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
- marginal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
- stomal ulcer (peptic) or erosion
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)F10.-
Index entries leading here 1
Alongside this code 8 same parent — K28
K28.0 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer with hemorrhage K28.1 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer with perforation K28.2 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer w both hemorrhage and perforation K28.3 Acute gastrojejunal ulcer without hemorrhage or perforation K28.4 Chronic or unspecified gastrojejunal ulcer with hemorrhage K28.6 Chronic or unsp gastrojejunal ulcer w both hemor and perf K28.7 Chronic gastrojejunal ulcer w/o hemorrhage or perforation K28.9 Gastrojejunal ulcer, unsp as acute or chr, w/o hemor or perf
Medications 1
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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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.