E72.3

E72.3: Disorders of lysine and hydroxylysine metabolism

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

E72.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for disorders of lysine and hydroxylysine metabolism. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check E72.3 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

glutaric aciduria type II (E71.313)
Refsum's disease (G60.1)
Zellweger syndrome (E71.510)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Glutaric aciduria NOS
Glutaric aciduria (type I)
Hydroxylysinemia
Hyperlysinemia

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E72.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on E72: Other disorders of amino-acid metabolism

disorders of:
aromatic amino-acid metabolism (E70.-)
branched-chain amino-acid metabolism (E71.0-E71.2)
fatty-acid metabolism (E71.3)
purine and pyrimidine metabolism (E79.-)
gout (M1A.-, M10.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with E72.3

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

E71.313Glutaric aciduria type II

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Glutaric aciduria
Hydroxylysinemia
Hyperlysinemia
Lysine and hydroxylysine metabolism disorder
Saccharopinuria
Acidemia›pipecolic
Aciduria›glutaric(type I)
Disorder›lysine and hydroxylysine metabolism
Hyperaminoaciduria›lysine
Intolerance›lysine
Disturbance›metabolism›hydroxylysine
Disturbance›metabolism›lysine

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under E72