Alcoholic liver disease, unspecified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 liver disease, unspecified

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.

Use > alcohol
Use > volatile solvents
Destruction, destructive
Disease, diseased > hepatic
Damage > liver > alcoholic
Disease, diseased > liver > alcoholic
Alcohol, alcoholic, alcohol-induced > liver

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
K70.0	Alcoholic fatty liver	Valid
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