ICD-10-CM › E00-E89 › E70-E88 › E78.0 Pure hypercholesterolemia › E78.00
E78.00
Pure hypercholesterolemia, unspecified
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.
- FY2017 Added to the code set Pure hypercholesterolemia, unspecified
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from E78 Disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemias
Excludes1 - never coded here
- sphingolipidosis (E75.0-E75.3)
Inherited from the E70-E88 section Metabolic disorders (E70-E88)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- androgen insensitivity syndrome (E34.5-)
- congenital adrenal hyperplasia (E25.0)
- hemolytic anemias attributable to enzyme disorders (D55.-)
- Marfan syndrome (Q87.4-)
- 5-alpha-reductase deficiency (E29.1)
Excludes2 - not included here
- Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (Q79.6-)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Raised
- Lipemia
- Lipoidemia
- Encounter > testing
- Hypercholesterinemia
- Elevated, elevation > GFR
- Test, tests, testing > blood-drug > positive
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > finding
- Test, tests, testing > blood-alcohol > positive
- Elevated, elevation > finding on laboratory examination
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > chemistry, blood > drugs
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > chemistry, blood > toxins
- Cholesteremia
- Cholesterolemia
- High > cholesterol
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Cholesterol > elevated
- Hyperbetalipoproteinemia
- Xanthoma > hypercholesterinemic
- Xanthoma > hypercholesterolemic
- Elevated, elevation > cholesterol
- Hyperlipemia, hyperlipidemia > group > A
- Frederickson's hyperlipoproteinemia, type > IIA
- Hyperlipoproteinemia > Fredrickson's type > IIa
- Low-density-lipoprotein-type hyperlipoproteinemia
- Hyperlipoproteinemia > low-density-lipoprotein-type
- Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis > cholesterol > high
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| E78.01 | Familial hypercholesterolemia | Not billable |