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E78.01

E78.01: Familial hypercholesterolemia

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

E78.01 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for familial hypercholesterolemia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E78.01

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on E78: Disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemias

Risk adjustment

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

Code history

  • deletedFY2024-FY2027

    Familial hypercholesterolemia

Code to one of these instead E78.01

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under E78.0

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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