Familial hypercholesterolemia

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2017 to FY2025, and a category header from FY2026.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

E78.010 Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia [HoFH]
E78.011 Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia [HeFH]
E78.019 Familial hypercholesterolemia, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

FY2017 Added to the code set Familial hypercholesterolemia
FY2026 Stopped being billable

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-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
E78.00	Pure hypercholesterolemia, unspecified	Valid