K70 — Alcoholic liver disease
Is K70 billable?
No — K70 is a non-billable header code. K70 groups more specific codes and cannot be submitted on a claim. A valid ICD-10-CM code must be reported at the highest level of specificity available in its branch. Select one of the 9 billable codes beneath K70.
Billable codes under this header
- K70.0Alcoholic fatty liver
- K70.2Alcoholic fibrosis and sclerosis of liver
- K70.9Alcoholic liver disease, unspecified
- K70.10Alcoholic hepatitis without ascites
- K70.11Alcoholic hepatitis with ascites
- K70.30Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver without ascites
- K70.31Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver with ascites
- K70.40Alcoholic hepatic failure without coma
- K70.41Alcoholic hepatic failure with coma
K70 at a glance
| Code | K70 |
|---|---|
| Description | Alcoholic liver disease |
| Billable | No — header code |
| Code set | ICD-10-CM FY2027 |
| Valid for encounters | October 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027 |
Use additional code
Report an additional code alongside K70 to fully describe the condition. K70 is sequenced first.
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
Excludes1 — never code together — inherited from K70-K77
The conditions below can never be reported together with K70 on the same claim. An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient, so reporting both is a coding error.
- jaundice NOS (R17)
Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from Chapter 11
The conditions below are not part of K70, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, K70 and the excluded code may both be reported.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from K70-K77
The conditions below are not part of K70, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, K70 and the excluded code may both be reported.
What codes fall under K70? (6)
How long has K70 existed?
K70 has been in ICD-10-CM since at least FY2016, the earliest fiscal year on record here.
Derived from the official order files for FY2016–FY2026. FY2017 and FY2020 publish no order file, so those years are not covered.
Which codes are confused with K70?
ICD-10-CM declares these codes mutually exclusive with K70 — exactly one of each pair can be correct for a given encounter.