ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T66-T78 › T78 Adverse effects, not elsewhere classified › T78.3
Angioneurotic edema
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- T78.3XXA Angioneurotic edema, initial encounter
- T78.3XXD Angioneurotic edema, subsequent encounter
- T78.3XXS Angioneurotic edema, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Angioneurotic edema
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.
- Hives
- Wheal
- Pitted
- Pitting
- Lipedema
- Retained
- Bold hives
- Rash > nettle
- Retention > water
- Disorder > allergic
- Exanthem, exanthema
- Hypersusceptibility
- Reaction > allergic
- Sensitive, sensitivity
- Edema, edematous > larynx
- Edema, edematous > epiglottis
- Edema, edematous > subglottic
- Edema, edematous > supraglottic
- Episcleritis > periodica fugax > angioneurotic
- Hypersensitive, hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity
- Angioedema
- Giant > urticaria
- Urticaria > giant
- Urticaria > larynx
- Angioneurotic edema
- Bannister's disease
- Urticaria > gigantea
- Quincke's disease or edema
- Edema, edematous > allergic
- Edema, edematous > periodic
- Edema, edematous > Quincke's
- Disease, diseased > Bannister's
- Edema, edematous > angioneurotic
- Edema, edematous > essential, acute
- Urticaria > with angioneurotic edema
- Allergy, allergic > angioneurotic edema
- Edema, edematous > circumscribed, acute
- Edema, edematous > glottis, glottic, glottidis > allergic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T78.0 | Anaphylactic reaction due to food | Not billable |
| T78.1 | Other adverse food reactions, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| T78.2 | Anaphylactic shock, unspecified | Not billable |
| T78.4 | Other and unspecified allergy | Not billable |
| T78.8 | Other adverse effects, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |