K22.81 is the authoritative medical code for Esophageal polyp. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for esophageal polyp (ICD-10-CM K22.81), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for K22.81 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes1 instructions, K22.81 must not be reported together with: benign neoplasm of esophagus (D13.0).
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes2 instructions, K22.81 and the following are not considered part of each other and may both be reported when both conditions are present: esophageal varices (I85.-); Paterson-Kelly syndrome (D50.1); hiatus hernia (K44.-).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to K22.81 in its code family, with their registry titles.
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.