Patient came into the ER with chronic pancreatitis. My ER coder assigned K86.0 along with the other alcohol related codes. 3M Nosology edit says "Code also exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (K86.81) when reporting code K86.0". ER physician did not document this diagnosis in his notes. With the term "code also" and not "code also if applicable", is it appropriate to assign K86.81 without physician documenting this?

Thanks in advance for any input on this.