K71.5 — Toxic liver disease with chronic active hepatitis
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
Other codes that can never be billed with K71.5
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at K71.5. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading K71.5 alone.
- R18Ascites
Risk adjustment
K71.5 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 K71.5
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K71. If K71.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- K71.0Toxic liver disease with cholestasis
- K71.1Toxic liver disease with hepatic necrosis
- K71.2Toxic liver disease with acute hepatitis
- K71.3Toxic liver disease with chronic persistent hepatitis
- K71.4Toxic liver disease with chronic lobular hepatitis
- K71.6Toxic liver disease with hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
- K71.7Toxic liver disease with fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
- K71.8Toxic liver disease with other disorders of liver
- K71.9Toxic liver disease, unspecified
Questions about K71.5
- Is K71.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K71.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K71.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of liver (K70-K77).