T78.119: Other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified
T78.119 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T78
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above T78.119
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T78.119
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on T78.1: Other adverse food reactions, not elsewhere classified
Other codes that can never be billed with T78.119
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- T75Other and unspecified effects of other external causes
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Allergy, allergic›dairy products
- Allergy, allergic›milk protein›adverse reaction NEC
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T78.119
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- T78.119AOther adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified, initial encounter
- T78.119DOther adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified, subsequent encounter
- T78.119SOther adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified, sequela