Jicama (yam bean) nutrition facts. Jicama, also known as yam bean, is a round, fleshy taproot vegetable of bean family plants. Its underground starchy root is one of the popular edible tuber-vegetables grown in many parts of Central American, South Asian, Caribbean, and some Andean South American regions.
1 Short description: Cirrhosis of liver NOS. 2  ICD-9-CM 571.5 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 571.5 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015.
However, a note in the description of this code in the ICD-9 manual states that you must code the underlying cause (either cirrhosis of the liver or portal hypertension) as the primary diagnosis, which forces you to choose between alcoholic and non-alcoholic cirrhosis, Stout explains.