ICD-10-CM › E00-E89 › E70-E88 › E78.01 Familial hypercholesterolemia › E78.019
E78.019
Familial 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 2026 to now.
- FY2026 Added to the code set Familial 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.
- Hypercholesterinemia
- Cholesterolemia > familial
- Cholesterolemia > hereditary
- Hypercholesterolemia > familial
- Hypercholesterolemia > hereditary
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| E78.010 | Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia [HoFH] | Valid |
| E78.011 | Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia [HeFH] | Valid |