ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K70-K77 › K76 Other diseases of liver › K76.0
Fatty (change of) liver, not elsewhere classified
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 Fatty (change of) liver, not elsewhere classified
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 K76 Other diseases of liver
Excludes2 - not included here
- alcoholic liver disease (K70.-)
- amyloid degeneration of liver (E85.-)
- cystic disease of liver (congenital) (Q44.6)
- hepatic vein thrombosis (I82.0)
- hepatomegaly NOS (R16.0)
- pigmentary cirrhosis (of liver) (E83.110)
- portal vein thrombosis (I81)
- toxic liver disease (K71.-)
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.
- Hepatomegaly
- Fatty > necrosis
- Tumefaction > liver
- Fatty > degeneration
- Disease, diseased > hepatic
- Enlargement, enlarged > liver
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > hepatic
- Infiltrate, infiltration > liver > fatty
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > liver > fatty
- Fatty > liver NEC
- Steatosis > liver NEC
- Cirrhosis, cirrhotic > fatty
- Fatty > liver NEC > nonalcoholic
- Degeneration, degenerative > fatty > liver NEC
- Disease, diseased > liver > fatty, nonalcoholic
- Degeneration, degenerative > liver NEC > fatty NEC
- Disease, diseased > liver > metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K76.1 | Chronic passive congestion of liver | Valid |
| K76.2 | Central hemorrhagic necrosis of liver | Valid |
| K76.3 | Infarction of liver | Valid |
| K76.4 | Peliosis hepatis | Valid |
| K76.5 | Hepatic veno-occlusive disease | Valid |
| K76.6 | Portal hypertension | Valid |
| K76.7 | Hepatorenal syndrome | Valid |
| K76.8 | Other specified diseases of liver | Not billable |
| K76.9 | Liver disease, unspecified | Valid |