E79.0 — Hyperuricemia without signs of inflammatory arthritis and tophaceous disease
E79.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hyperuricemia without signs of inflammatory arthritis and tophaceous disease. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Asymptomatic hyperuricemia
Other codes that can never be billed with E79.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at E79.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading E79.0 alone.
- R79Other abnormal findings of blood chemistry
Risk adjustment
E79.0 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.
Medicare coverage
E79.0 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56695Billing and Coding: Implantable Infusion Pump
- A57189Billing and Coding: Serum Magnesium
- A59186Billing and Coding: Magnesium
How E79.0 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 E79.0.
- Hyperuricemia(asymptomatic)
- Lithemia
- Uric acid in blood(increased)
- Uricacidemia(asymptomatic)
- Uricemia(asymptomatic)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E79. If E79.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E79.0
- Is E79.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. E79.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does E79.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Metabolic disorders (E70-E88).