K71.5

K71.5: Toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

K71.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis. 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.

Toxic liver disease with lupoid hepatitis

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above K71.5

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on K71: Toxic liver disease

alcoholic liver disease (K70.-)
Budd-Chiari syndrome (I82.0)

Other codes that can never be billed with K71.5

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

K73Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
R18Ascites

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead K71.5

2 child codes. Green means billable.