Valid for Submission
K70.40 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of alcoholic hepatic failure without coma. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code K70.40 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like alcoholic hepatic failure or alcoholic liver damage.
The code K70.40 is applicable to adult patients aged 15 through 124 years inclusive. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a patient outside the stated age range.
| ICD-10: | K70.40 |
| Short Description: | Alcoholic hepatic failure without coma |
| Long Description: | Alcoholic hepatic failure without coma |
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code K70.40 are found in the index:
- - Disease, diseased - See Also: Syndrome;
- - liver (chronic) (organic) - K76.9
- - alcoholic (chronic) - K70.9
- - failure - K70.40
- - alcoholic (chronic) - K70.9
- - liver (chronic) (organic) - K76.9
- - Failure, failed
- - hepatic - K72.90
- - alcoholic (acute) (chronic) (subacute) - K70.40
- - hepatic - K72.90
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Adult diagnoses - Adult. Age range is 15–124 years inclusive (e.g., senile delirium, mature cataract).
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Alcoholic hepatic failure
- Alcoholic liver damage
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code K70.40 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.
- 432 - CIRRHOSIS AND ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS WITH MCC
- 433 - CIRRHOSIS AND ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS WITH CC
- 434 - CIRRHOSIS AND ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC
Convert K70.40 to ICD-9
- 571.3 - Alcohol liver damage NOS (Approximate Flag)
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020