AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2022 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes

Hepatic Encephalopathy

Subcategory K76.8, Other specified diseases of liver, has been further expanded, and code K76.82, Hepatic encephalopathy, has been created to uniquely identify hepatic encephalopathy (without coma). Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a specific type of encephalopathy that occurs when liver disease causes toxins to build up in the patient’s blood. Ammonia is one of the toxins that is normally made harmless by the liver. However, when ammonia or other toxic substances build up in the body and the liver is unable to remove these toxins from the blood, these toxins may travel to the brain and...

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