ICD-10 Code B00.81: Herpesviral hepatitis
What is this code?
ICD-10 codes are diagnosis classification codes used in healthcare records, reporting, coding workflows, and billing support. This code sits within the broader ICD-10 area for Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).
đź“‹Clinical overview
This ICD-10 code is commonly used when documentation describes a herpesviral infection. The most accurate code depends on the documented manifestation, such as cutaneous, oral, neurologic, ocular, disseminated, hepatic, other specified, or unspecified disease pattern.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents herpesviral hepatitis in a patient's medical record.
- May appear in hospital records, claims, referrals, and clinical documentation.
- This code can be used as a clinically usable diagnosis entry in standardized coding workflows.
What it does not mean
- A code alone does not explain severity, treatment plan, or outcome.
- A medical code should not be treated as a substitute for a doctor's diagnosis or advice.
đź©şClinical context
- Primary-care, dermatology, infectious-disease, ophthalmology, neurology, emergency, and inpatient workflows where herpesviral disease is part of the active diagnosis set.
- Coding and utilization-review workflows where the chart identifies the site or syndrome of herpesviral infection and that manifestation changes final code specificity.
- Evaluation often includes symptom and lesion review, neurologic or ocular assessment when relevant, antiviral-treatment planning, and coordination across the affected specialty context.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies skin versus oral versus neurologic versus eye involvement, disseminated disease, hepatic involvement, or another specified herpesviral manifestation.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Infectious Disease Specialist, General Physician, Gastroenterologist.
🔍Key distinctions
- This ICD-10 family captures herpesviral infection across multiple clinical manifestations rather than a single anatomic site.
- Manifestation detail, such as ocular, neurologic, disseminated, hepatic, other specified, or unspecified pattern, drives the final code specificity inside this family.
- Herpesviral hepatitis is coded separately from localized cutaneous, oral, neurologic, ocular, disseminated, other, or unspecified herpesviral infection patterns.
- Documentation that describes herpesviral infection is coded differently from varicella-zoster disease, cytomegaloviral disease, or other non-herpes-simplex viral infections.
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Where you may see this code
You may see this code in hospital records, discharge summaries, insurance claims, encounter documentation, referrals, or other healthcare billing and coding records.
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