ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T66-T78 › T78.12 Other adverse food reaction due to eggs › T78.120

T78.120

Other adverse food reaction due to egg with tolerance to baked egg

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

A category header for its whole life, FY2026 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • T78.120A Other adverse food reaction due to egg with tolerance to baked egg, initial encounter
  • T78.120D Other adverse food reaction due to egg with tolerance to baked egg, subsequent encounter
  • T78.120S Other adverse food reaction due to egg with tolerance to baked egg, sequela

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2026 to now.

  1. FY2026 Added to the code set Other adverse food reaction due to egg with tolerance to baked egg

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 T78 Adverse effects, not elsewhere classified

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T78

Excludes2 - not included here

  • complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)

Inherited from the T66-T78 section Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)

Code also

  • , if applicable, place of occurrence, such as:
  • highway rest stop (Y92.523)
  • school (private) (public) (state) as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.21-)
  • service areas as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.52-)
  • single-family non-institutional (private) house as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.01-)
  • transport vehicle as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.81-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
T78.121 Other adverse food reaction due to egg with reactivity to baked egg Not billable
T78.129 Other adverse food reaction due to egg with baked egg tolerance/reactivity, unspecified Not billable