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K71 - Toxic 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

K71 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 10 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

IncludesFrom K71

Conditions this code covers.

  • drug-induced idiosyncratic (unpredictable) liver disease
  • drug-induced toxic (predictable) liver disease
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom K71

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

  • alcoholic liver disease (K70.-)
  • Budd-Chiari syndrome (I82.0)
Use Additional CodeFrom K71

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

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
Code FirstFrom K71

Sequence the underlying condition before this code.

  • poisoning due to drug or toxin, if applicable (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4)
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 (10)

K71.0Toxic liver disease with cholestasis→K71.1Toxic liver disease with hepatic necrosis→K71.2Toxic liver disease with acute hepatitis→K71.3Toxic liver disease with chronic persistent hepatitis→K71.4Toxic liver disease with chronic lobular hepatitis→K71.5Toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis→K71.6Toxic liver disease with hepatitis, not elsewhere classified→K71.7Toxic liver disease with fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver→K71.8Toxic liver disease with other disorders of liver→K71.9Toxic liver disease, unspecified→

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