ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K70-K77 › K70 Alcoholic liver disease › K70.1
Alcoholic hepatitis
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:
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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Alcoholic hepatitis
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.
- Disease, diseased > hepatic
- Disease, diseased > liver > inflammatory > alcoholic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K70.0 | Alcoholic fatty liver | Valid |
| 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 |