ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K70-K77 › K70 Alcoholic liver disease › K70.0
Alcoholic fatty liver
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 Alcoholic fatty liver
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 K70 Alcoholic liver disease
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
Inherited from the K70-K77 section Diseases of liver (K70-K77)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- jaundice NOS (R17)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hemochromatosis (E83.11-)
- Reye's syndrome (G93.7)
- viral hepatitis (B15-B19)
- Wilson's disease (E83.01)
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.
- Hepatomegaly
- Fatty > necrosis
- Tumefaction > liver
- Fatty > degeneration
- Disease, diseased > hepatic
- Enlargement, enlarged > liver
- Cirrhosis, cirrhotic > hepatic
- Cirrhosis, cirrhotic > atrophic
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > hepatic
- Infiltrate, infiltration > liver > fatty
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > liver > fatty
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > liver > cirrhotic
- Zieve's syndrome
- Fatty > liver NEC > alcoholic
- Cirrhosis, cirrhotic > fatty > alcoholic
- Cirrhosis, cirrhotic > liver > alcoholic > fatty
- Disease, diseased > liver > alcoholic > fatty liver
- Degeneration, degenerative > fatty > liver NEC > alcoholic
- Disease, diseased > liver > fatty, nonalcoholic > alcoholic
- Degeneration, degenerative > liver NEC > fatty NEC > alcoholic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K70.1 | Alcoholic hepatitis | Not billable |
| K70.2 | Alcoholic fibrosis and sclerosis of liver | Valid |
| K70.3 | Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver | Not billable |
| K70.4 | Alcoholic hepatic failure | Not billable |
| K70.9 | Alcoholic liver disease, unspecified | Valid |