ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K70-K77 › K71 Toxic liver disease › K71.3
Toxic liver disease with chronic persistent hepatitis
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 Toxic liver disease with chronic persistent 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 K71 Toxic liver disease
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)
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.
- Hepatitis > toxic
- Damage > liver > toxic
- Destruction, destructive
- Disease, diseased > hepatic
- Hepatitis > chronic > toxic
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis
- Damage > liver > due to drugs
- Disease, diseased > liver > drug-induced
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > liver
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis > chronic active
- Disease, diseased > liver > end stage > due to hepatitis
- Flap, liver
- Asterixis > in liver disease
- Disease, diseased > liver > toxic > with > hepatitis NEC > chronic > persistent
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K71.0 | Toxic liver disease with cholestasis | Valid |
| K71.1 | Toxic liver disease with hepatic necrosis | Not billable |
| K71.2 | Toxic liver disease with acute hepatitis | Valid |
| K71.4 | Toxic liver disease with chronic lobular hepatitis | Valid |
| K71.5 | Toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis | Not billable |
| K71.6 | Toxic liver disease with hepatitis, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| K71.7 | Toxic liver disease with fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver | Valid |
| K71.8 | Toxic liver disease with other disorders of liver | Valid |
| K71.9 | Toxic liver disease, unspecified | Valid |