K72.0 — Acute and subacute hepatic failure
K72.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute and subacute 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 non-viral hepatitis NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with K72.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at K72.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading K72.0 alone.
Risk adjustment
K72.0 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.
How K72.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to K72.0.
- Hepatitis›acute›non-viral
Code to one of these instead K72.0
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K72. If K72.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K72.0
- Is K72.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. K72.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does K72.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of liver (K70-K77).