K75.9

K75.9: Inflammatory liver disease, unspecified

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

K75.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for inflammatory liver disease, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check K75.9 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

acute or subacute hepatitis (K72.0-)
chronic hepatitis NEC (K73.-)
viral hepatitis (B15-B19)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Hepatitis NOS

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above K75.9

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

Written on K75: Other inflammatory liver diseases

toxic liver disease (K71.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

K75.9 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Hepatitis
Disease, diseased›liver›inflammatory

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.