E51.11 — Dry beriberi
E51.11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for dry beriberi. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Beriberi NOS
- Beriberi with polyneuropathy
Risk adjustment
E51.11 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
E51.11 is named in 13 Medicare coverage policies — 13 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
- A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
- A54095Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56500Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
How E51.11 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to E51.11.
- Beriberi(dry)
- Kakke
- Panneuritis endemica
- Shoshin(acute fulminating beriberi)
- Thiaminic deficiency with beriberi
- Beriberi›polyneuropathy
- Neuritis›endemic
- Neuritis›multiplex endemica
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic›endemic
- Beriberi›wet›involving circulatory system
- Deficiency, deficient›thiamin, thiaminic›beriberi(dry)
- Neuritis›due to›beriberi
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E51.1. If E51.11 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E51.11
- Is E51.11 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. E51.11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does E51.11 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Other nutritional deficiencies (E50-E64).