ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K70-K77 › K74.0 Hepatic fibrosis › K74.00

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

Valid FY2021 onwards.

What has happened to this code

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 K74 Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver

Excludes1 - never coded here

• alcoholic cirrhosis (of liver) (K70.3)
• alcoholic fibrosis of liver (K70.2)
• cardiac sclerosis of liver (K76.1)
• cirrhosis (of liver) with toxic liver disease (K71.7)
• congenital cirrhosis (of liver) (P78.81)
• pigmentary cirrhosis (of liver) (E83.110)

Code also

• , if applicable, viral hepatitis (acute) (chronic) (B15-B19)

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.

• Fibrosis, fibrotic > hepatic
• Fibrosis, fibrotic > liver

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
K74.01	Hepatic fibrosis, early fibrosis	Valid
K74.02	Hepatic fibrosis, advanced fibrosis	Valid
K74.0A	Hepatic fibrosis, moderate fibrosis	Valid