Coding and coverage · ICD-10-CM

K74 › K74.0

K74.02 Hepatic fibrosis, advanced fibrosis

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Instructional notes

Chapter 11

Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • 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)

Section K70-K77

Excludes1Not coded here: never report with this code, except when the two conditions are unrelated.
  • jaundice NOS (R17)
Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.

K74

Excludes1Not coded here: never report with this code, except when the two conditions are unrelated.
  • alcoholic cirrhosis (of liver) (K70.3)
  • alcoholic fibrosis of liver (K70.2)
  • cardiac sclerosis of liver (K76.1)
  • cirrhosis (of liver) with toxic liver disease (K71.7)
  • congenital cirrhosis (of liver) (P78.81)
  • pigmentary cirrhosis (of liver) (E83.110)
Code also
  • , if applicable, viral hepatitis (acute) (chronic) (B15-B19)

K74.0

Code firstSequence the underlying condition first.
  • underlying liver disease, such as:
  • nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) (K75.81)

This code

Excludes1Not coded here: never report with this code, except when the two conditions are unrelated.
  • cirrhosis of liver (K74.6-)
  • hepatic fibrosis, stage F4 (K74.6-)
Inclusion terms
  • Hepatic fibrosis, stage F3

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system · K70-K77 Diseases of liver (K70-K77)

Source: ICD-10-CM FY 2027 code descriptions and tabular list (CMS and CDC National Center for Health Statistics), effective 2026-10-01 through 2027-09-30 · CMS ICD-10 files. HCC mapping: CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2027. As of 2026-11-04.

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