K70.1
K70.1: Alcoholic hepatitis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K70.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for alcoholic hepatitis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with K70.1
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Disease, diseased›liver›inflammatory›alcoholic
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead K70.1
2 child codes. Green means billable.