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C22

Malignant neoplasm of liver and intrahepatic bile ducts

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 8 more specific codes instead:

  • C22.0 Liver cell carcinoma
  • C22.1 Intrahepatic bile duct carcinoma
  • C22.2 Hepatoblastoma
  • C22.3 Angiosarcoma of liver
  • C22.4 Other sarcomas of liver
  • C22.7 Other specified carcinomas of liver
  • C22.8 Malignant neoplasm of liver, primary, unspecified as to type
  • C22.9 Malignant neoplasm of liver, not specified as primary or secondary

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Malignant neoplasm of liver and intrahepatic bile ducts

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • malignant neoplasm of biliary tract NOS (C24.9)
  • secondary malignant neoplasm of liver and intrahepatic bile duct (C78.7)

Use additional code

  • code to identify:
  • alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
  • hepatitis B (B16.-, B18.0-B18.1)
  • hepatitis C (B17.1-, B18.2)

Inherited from the C15-C26 section Malignant neoplasms of digestive organs (C15-C26)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • Kaposi's sarcoma of gastrointestinal sites (C46.4)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • gastrointestinal stromal tumors (C49.A-)