K76.82
Hepatic encephalopathy
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 25 never code together
K76.82code
K76code
Excludes2
- alcoholic liver disease (K70.-)K70.-
- amyloid degeneration of liver (E85.-)E85.-
- cystic disease of liver (congenital) (Q44.6)Q44.6
- hepatic vein thrombosis (I82.0)I82.0
- hepatomegaly NOS (R16.0)R16.0
- pigmentary cirrhosis (of liver) (E83.110)E83.110
- portal vein thrombosis (I81)I81
- toxic liver disease (K71.-)K71.-
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 13
K76.82code
Inclusion terms
- Hepatic encephalopathy, NOS
- Hepatic encephalopathy without coma
- Hepatocerebral intoxication
- Portal-systemic encephalopathy
Code also
- underlying liver disease, such as:
- acute and subacute hepatic failure without coma (K72.00)K72.00
- alcoholic hepatic failure without coma (K70.40)K70.40
- chronic hepatic failure without coma (K72.10)K72.10
- hepatic failure with toxic liver disease without coma (K71.10)K71.10
- hepatic failure without coma (K72.90)K72.90
- icterus of newborn (P55-P59)P55-P59
- postprocedural hepatic failure (K91.82)K91.82
- viral hepatitis without hepatic coma (B15.9, B16.1, B16.9, B17.10, B19.10, B19.20, B19.9)B15.9B16.1B16.9B17.10B19.10B19.20B19.9
Index entries leading here 2
Alongside this code 2 same parent — K76.8
Medications 1
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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