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K85.80

Other acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 8 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

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 2

K85code

Includes

acute (recurrent) pancreatitis
subacute pancreatitis

Official Guidelines 1 names this code

ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, quoted in full. Published by CMS and NCHS; in the public domain.

I.C.11 Chapter 11: Diseases of the Digestive System (K00-K95) names this code p.58

Reserved for future guideline expansion

Index entries leading here 5

Pancreatitis (annular) (apoplectic) (calcareous) (edematous) (hemorrhagic) (malignant) (subacute) (suppurative) K85.90
- interstitial (chronic) K86.1
  - acute K85.80
- acute (without necrosis or infection) K85.90
  - specified NEC (without necrosis or infection) K85.80
Syndrome — see also Disease
- Fitz's K85.80
Fitz's syndrome (acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis) K85.80
Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- pancreas (acute) — see Pancreatitis, acute
  - specified NEC K85.80
Suppuration, suppurative — see also condition
- pancreas, acute K85.80

Alongside this code 2 same parent — K85.8

K85.81 Other acute pancreatitis with uninfected necrosis K85.82 Other acute pancreatitis with infected necrosis

Medications 1

5 Kidney Tubular Necrosis, Acute drugs

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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Risk adjustment

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

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This code

Billable: yes
Code set: FY2026
Parent: K85.8
Block: K80-K87
Siblings: 2

Present FY2024–FY2027.