ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B15-B19 › B19.2 Unspecified viral hepatitis C › B19.21
Unspecified viral hepatitis C with hepatic coma
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified viral hepatitis C with hepatic coma
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from the B15-B19 section Viral hepatitis (B15-B19)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- sequelae of viral hepatitis (B94.2)
Excludes2 - not included here
- cytomegaloviral hepatitis (B25.1)
- herpesviral [herpes simplex] hepatitis (B00.81)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Hepatitis > serum
- Serum > hepatitis
- Hepatitis > anicteric,
- Hepatitis > inoculation
- Hepatitis > fulminant NEC
- Homologous serum hepatitis
- Disease, diseased > hepatic
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis
- Hepatitis > homologous serum
- Hepatitis > postimmunization
- Hepatitis > post-transfusion
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > liver
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis > chronic active
- Disease, diseased > liver > end stage > due to hepatitis
- Hepatitis > C > with hepatic coma
- Hepatitis > viral, virus > type > C > with hepatic coma
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B19.20 | Unspecified viral hepatitis C without hepatic coma | Valid |