K70.31
Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver with ascites
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
valid age >= 15
Exclusions 13 never code together
K70-K77block
K00-K95chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 3
Index entries leading here 4
- Cirrhosis, cirrhotic (hepatic) (liver) K74.60
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Ascites (abdominal) R18.8
- due to
- cirrhosis, alcoholic K70.31
- due to
- Laennec's cirrhosis K70.30
- with ascites K70.31
Alongside this code 1 same parent — K70.3
Medications 4
38 Liver Cirrhosis drugs 13 Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary drugs 2 Liver Diseases, Alcoholic drugs 1 Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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