E87.6
E87.6: Hypokalemia
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
E87.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hypokalemia. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check E87.6 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Potassium [K] deficiency
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E87.6
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on E87: Other disorders of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
E87.6 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies: 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A57189Billing and Coding: Serum Magnesium
- A57326Billing and Coding: Electrocardiograms
- A57361Billing and Coding: Monitored Anesthesia Care
- A59186Billing and Coding: Magnesium
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Hypokalemia
- Hypopotassemia
- Deficiency, deficient›kalium
- Deficiency, deficient›potassium(K)
- Depletion›potassium
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis›potassium(deficiency)
- Syndrome›hypokalemic
- Syndrome›hypopotassemia
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.