ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K70-K77 › K72.9 Hepatic failure, unspecified › K72.90
Hepatic failure, unspecified without 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 Hepatic failure, unspecified without 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 K72 Hepatic failure, not elsewhere classified
Excludes1 - never coded here
- alcoholic hepatic failure (K70.4)
- hepatic failure with toxic liver disease (K71.1-)
- icterus of newborn (P55-P59)
- postprocedural hepatic failure (K91.82)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hepatic failure complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8)
- hepatic failure complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O26.6-)
- viral hepatitis with hepatic coma (B15-B19)
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, for ascites (R18.8)
Includes
- fulminant hepatitis NEC, with hepatic failure
- liver (cell) necrosis with hepatic failure
- malignant hepatitis NEC, with hepatic failure
- yellow liver atrophy or dystrophy
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.
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Comatose
- Unconscious
- Coma > hepatic
- Yellow > atrophy
- Yellow > jaundice
- 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
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Macula > degeneration > hereditary
- Insufficiency, insufficient > liver
- Retinopathy > pigmentary, congenital
- Insufficiency, insufficient > hepatic
- Syndrome > cardiovascular renal Note:
- Hepatitis > acute > with hepatic failure
- Degeneration, degenerative > chorioretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > tapetoretinal
- Symptoms NEC > involving > awareness > coma
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > liver
- Ascites > due to > hepatitis > chronic active
- Degeneration, degenerative > Bruch's membrane
- 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
Showing 40 of 45 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K72.91 | Hepatic failure, unspecified with coma | Valid |