E72.5
E72.5 — Disorders of glycine metabolism
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
E72.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for disorders of glycine metabolism. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with E72.5
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at E72.5. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading E72.5 alone.
Risk adjustment
E72.5 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.
Code to one of these instead E72.5
6 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E72. If E72.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- E72.0Disorders of amino-acid transport
- E72.1Disorders of sulfur-bearing amino-acid metabolism
- E72.2Disorders of urea cycle metabolism
- E72.3Disorders of lysine and hydroxylysine metabolism
- E72.4Disorders of ornithine metabolism
- E72.8Other specified disorders of amino-acid metabolism
- E72.9Disorder of amino-acid metabolism, unspecified
Questions about E72.5
- Is E72.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. E72.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does E72.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Metabolic disorders (E70-E88).