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K71

Toxic liver disease

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • K71.0 Toxic liver disease with cholestasis
  • K71.1 Toxic liver disease with hepatic necrosis (also a header)
  • K71.2 Toxic liver disease with acute hepatitis
  • K71.3 Toxic liver disease with chronic persistent hepatitis
  • K71.4 Toxic liver disease with chronic lobular hepatitis
  • K71.5 Toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis (also a header)
  • K71.6 Toxic liver disease with hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
  • K71.7 Toxic liver disease with fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
  • K71.8 Toxic liver disease with other disorders of liver
  • K71.9 Toxic liver disease, unspecified

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 Toxic liver disease

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

Excludes2 - not included here

  • alcoholic liver disease (K70.-)
  • Budd-Chiari syndrome (I82.0)

Use additional code

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)

Code first

  • poisoning due to drug or toxin, if applicable (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4)

Includes

  • drug-induced idiosyncratic (unpredictable) liver disease
  • drug-induced toxic (predictable) liver disease

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)