E78.00
E78.00: Pure hypercholesterolemia, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
E78.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for pure hypercholesterolemia, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check E78.00 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Fredrickson's hyperlipoproteinemia, type IIa
- Hyperbetalipoproteinemia
- Low-density-lipoprotein-type [LDL] hyperlipoproteinemia
- (Pure) hypercholesterolemia NOS
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
E78.00 is named in 22 Medicare coverage policies: 22 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A54543Therapeutic Apheresis for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
- A56416Billing and Coding: Assays for Vitamins and Metabolic Function
- A56422Billing and Coding: Bariatric Surgical Management of Morbid Obesity
- A56774Billing and Coding: Ophthalmic Angiography (Fluorescein and Indocyanine Green)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Cholesteremia
- Cholesterolemia(essential) (pure)
- Hyperbetalipoproteinemia(familial)
- Hypercholesterolemia(essential) (primary) (pure)
- Low-density-lipoprotein-type hyperlipoproteinemia(LDL)
- Cholesterol›elevated(high)
- Elevated, elevation›cholesterol
- Frederickson's hyperlipoproteinemia, type›IIA
- High›cholesterol
- Hyperlipoproteinemia›low-density-lipoprotein-type(LDL)
- Xanthoma›hypercholesterinemic
- Xanthoma›hypercholesterolemic
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.