Peritoneum, adhesions of, due to surgery, trauma, disease, or infection (DC 7301)

Rating levels

• 80% — Your intestines are partially blocked by scar tissue (adhesions) and this blockage won't go away despite treatment attempts. Either doctors cannot safely operate to fix the blockage, or you need to receive all your nutrition through an IV (total parenteral nutrition) because eating normally causes severe obstruction symptoms like pain, vomiting, and inability to pass food through your digestive system.
• 50% — You qualify for this rating if you have scar tissue inside your belly (peritoneal adhesions) that formed after surgery, injury, or disease and keeps causing problems even after treatment. You must have been hospitalized at least once per year because this scar tissue blocked your intestines, and your doctor has put you on a special diet to manage the condition. You also must experience at least one ongoing digestive symptom like belly pain, nausea, vomiting, cramping, constipation, or diarrhea.
• 30% — You can qualify for this rating if you have scar tissue bands in your abdomen (peritoneal adhesions) that keep causing problems even after you've had surgery, injury, inflammatory disease, or infection. Your doctor must have you follow a special diet to manage your condition, and you must regularly experience at least one of these digestive symptoms: stomach pain, nausea, throwing up, severe cramping pain (colic), constipation, or diarrhea.
• 10% — You qualify if you have scar tissue (adhesions) in your abdominal lining (peritoneum) that came from surgery, injury, disease, or infection, and these adhesions are still causing problems or keep coming back even after treatment. A healthcare provider must confirm you have these symptomatic adhesions, and you must experience at least one of these ongoing symptoms: abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, severe cramping (colic), constipation, or diarrhea.
• 0% — You have a documented medical history of scar tissue (adhesions) that formed around the lining of your abdominal cavity (peritoneum) after surgery, injury, disease, or infection, but you're not experiencing any symptoms from it right now. The adhesions aren't causing you pain, digestive problems, or interfering with your daily activities at this time.