Alcoholic hepatitis
Non-billable header
K70.1 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K70)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K70)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K70)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K70)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K70)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K70)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K70)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K70)
- hemochromatosis (E83.11-) (from K70)
- Reye's syndrome (G93.7) (from K70)
- viral hepatitis (B15-B19) (from K70)
- Wilson's disease (E83.01) (from K70)
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Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Disease, diseased, liver, inflammatory, alcoholic