K70
K70 — Alcoholic liver disease
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K70 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for alcoholic liver disease. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Use additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
Other codes that can never be billed with K70
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at K70. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading K70 alone.
Risk adjustment
K70 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead K70
6 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about K70
- Is K70 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K70 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K70 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of liver (K70-K77).