Toxic liver disease with chronic active 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.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

K71.50 Toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis without ascites
K71.51 Toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis with ascites

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 Toxic liver disease with chronic active 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)

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
K71.3	Toxic liver disease with chronic persistent hepatitis	Valid
K71.4	Toxic liver disease with chronic lobular hepatitis	Valid
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