96.38 - Removal Of Impacted Feces
The ICD 9 Code for Removal of impacted feces is listed as 96.38.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS and chapter information where available.
| ICD 9 CM Volume 3 (PCS) Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Procedure Code: | 96.38 |
| Description: | Removal of impacted feces |
| Short Description: | Impacted feces removal |
| Chapter: | Miscellaneous diagnostic and therapeutic procedures |
| Subsection 1: | Nonoperative intubation and irrigation |
| ICD-10-PCS General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS): | |
| ICD 10 PCS Code: | 3E1H78Z - Irrigation of Lower GI using Irrigating Substance, Via Natural or Artificial Opening (approximate) |
| ICD-9-CM Volume 3 (PCS) Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 96.38: | |
| 96.31 - Gastric cooling | |
| 96.32 - Gastric freezing | |
| 96.33 - Gastric lavage | |
| 96.34 - Other irrigation of (naso-)gastric tube | |
| 96.35 - Gastric gavage | |
| 96.36 - Irrigation of gastrostomy or enterostomy | |
| 96.37 - Proctoclysis | |
| 96.39 - Other transanal enema | |