E75.5 — Other lipid storage disorders
E75.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other lipid storage disorders. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Cerebrotendinous cholesterosis [van Bogaert-Scherer-Epstein]
- Wolman's disease
Other codes that can never be billed with E75.5
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at E75.5. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading E75.5 alone.
- E78.2Mixed hyperlipidemia
Risk adjustment
E75.5 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.
Medicare coverage
E75.5 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies — 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56943Billing and Coding: MolDX: Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
- A57037Billing and Coding: MolDX: Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
- A57326Billing and Coding: Electrocardiograms
- A57386Billing and Coding: MolDX: Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
How E75.5 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 E75.5.
- Van Bogaert-Scherer-Epstein disease or syndrome
- Wolman's disease
- Cholesterolosis, cholesterosis›cerebrotendinous
- Disease, diseased›triglyceride-storage
- Hyperlipidosis›hereditary NEC
- Lipidosis›cholesterol(cerebral)
- Xanthoma›cerebrotendinous
- Xanthoma›cutaneotendinous
- Xanthoma›joint
- Xanthoma›tendon(sheath)
- Disease, diseased›lipid-storage›specified NEC
- Disorder›lipid›storage›specified NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E75. If E75.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E75.5
- Is E75.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. E75.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does E75.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Metabolic disorders (E70-E88).