E79.8
E79.8: Other disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
E79.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E79.8
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on E79: Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism
Other codes that can never be billed with E79.8
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- E72Other disorders of amino-acid metabolism
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead E79.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.