AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2026 Issue 1; Ask the Editor

Liver Cirrhosis due to Hepatitis C

Coding Clinic First Quarter 2018, page 4, instructed coding professionals to assign code K74.60, Unspecified cirrhosis of liver, for cirrhosis when it is secondary to hepatitis C. However, is code K74.69, Other cirrhosis of liver, appropriate as this would seem to be a specific type of cirrhosis, i.e., secondary cirrhosis? ...

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