ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K70-K77 › K70.4 Alcoholic hepatic failure › K70.41
Alcoholic hepatic failure with 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 Alcoholic hepatic failure with 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 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.
- Comatose
- Unconscious
- Coma > hepatic
- Yellow > atrophy
- Stargardt's disease
- Failure, failed > liver
- Decompensation > hepatic
- Atrophy, atrophic > yellow
- Necrosis, necrotic > liver
- Disease, diseased > hepatic
- Heredodegeneration, macular
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis
- Syndrome > cardiorenal Note:
- Disorder > retina > dystrophy
- Dystrophy, dystrophia > yellow
- Macula > degeneration > hereditary
- Insufficiency, insufficient > liver
- Retinopathy > pigmentary, congenital
- Insufficiency, insufficient > hepatic
- Syndrome > cardiovascular renal Note:
- Hepatitis > acute > with hepatic failure
- Degeneration, degenerative > tapetoretinal
- Symptoms NEC > involving > awareness > coma
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > liver
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis > chronic active
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > pigmentary
- Degeneration, degenerative > choroid > hereditary
- Hepatitis > specified type NEC > with hepatic failure
- Symptoms NEC > involving > cognitive functions > coma
- Disease, diseased > liver > end stage > due to hepatitis
- Degeneration, degenerative > eye, macular > congenital or hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > macula, macular > congenital or hereditary
- Failure, failed > hepatic > alcoholic > with coma
- Disease, diseased > liver > alcoholic > failure > with coma
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K70.40 | Alcoholic hepatic failure without coma | Valid |