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K70 - Alcoholic liver disease

ICD-10-CM Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system · K70-K77 Diseases of liver (K70-K77) · Top-level category · FY2027

Coding Guidance

K70 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 6 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Use Additional CodeFrom K70

Add a secondary code to identify the associated condition or cause when it is documented.

  • code to identify:
  • alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom K70-K77 Diseases of liver (K70-K77)

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • jaundice NOS (R17)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom K70-K77 Diseases of liver (K70-K77)

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • hemochromatosis (E83.11-)
  • Reye's syndrome (G93.7)
  • viral hepatitis (B15-B19)
  • Wilson's disease (E83.01)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter K00-K95

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

More Specific Codes (6)

K70.0Alcoholic fatty liver→K70.1Alcoholic hepatitis→K70.2Alcoholic fibrosis and sclerosis of liver→K70.3Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver→K70.4Alcoholic hepatic failure→K70.9Alcoholic liver disease, unspecified→

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