K72.90Billable
Hepatic failure, unspecified without coma
Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system
Billable Code
K72.90 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
View documentation for end stage liver disease
end stage liver disease
View TemplatesEnd-Stage Liver Disease
View documentation for increased ammonia level
increased ammonia level
View TemplatesHyperammonemia
View documentation for liver dysfunction
liver dysfunction
View TemplatesLiver Dysfunction
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Includes
4 items
Includes
From K72:
- •fulminant hepatitis NEC, with hepatic failure
- •liver (cell) necrosis with hepatic failure
- •malignant hepatitis NEC, with hepatic failure
- •yellow liver atrophy or dystrophy
Excludes2
11 items
Excludes2
From K00-K95:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- •endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- •injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- •neoplasms (C00-D49)
- •symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)