K70.4
K70.4 — Alcoholic hepatic failure
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
K70.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for alcoholic hepatic failure. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Acute alcoholic hepatic failure
- Alcoholic hepatic failure NOS
- Chronic alcoholic hepatic failure
- Subacute alcoholic hepatic failure
Other codes that can never be billed with K70.4
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at K70.4. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading K70.4 alone.
Risk adjustment
K70.4 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 K70.4
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K70. If K70.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K70.4
- Is K70.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K70.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K70.4 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of liver (K70-K77).