K72.1

K72.1: Chronic hepatic failure

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

K72.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for chronic 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.

End stage liver disease

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above K72.1

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on K72: Hepatic failure, not elsewhere classified

alcoholic hepatic failure (K70.4)
hepatic failure with toxic liver disease (K71.1-)
icterus of newborn (P55-P59)
postprocedural hepatic failure (K91.82)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above K72.1

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

Written on K72: Hepatic failure, not elsewhere classified

hepatic failure complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8)
hepatic failure complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O26.6-)
viral hepatitis with hepatic coma (B15-B19)

Other codes that can never be billed with K72.1

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

K76.2Central hemorrhagic necrosis of liver
K76.82Hepatic encephalopathy
R40Somnolence, stupor and coma

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 K72.1

2 child codes. Green means billable.