E78.0
E78.0 — Pure hypercholesterolemia
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
E78.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pure hypercholesterolemia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
E78.0 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 E78.0
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E78. If E78.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- E78.1Pure hyperglyceridemia
- E78.2Mixed hyperlipidemia
- E78.3Hyperchylomicronemia
- E78.4Other hyperlipidemia
- E78.5Hyperlipidemia, unspecified
- E78.6Lipoprotein deficiency
- E78.7Disorders of bile acid and cholesterol metabolism
- E78.8Other disorders of lipoprotein metabolism
- E78.9Disorder of lipoprotein metabolism, unspecified
Questions about E78.0
- Is E78.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. E78.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does E78.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Metabolic disorders (E70-E88).