E78.7Disorders of bile acid and cholesterol metabolism

E78.7 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for disorders of bile acid and cholesterol metabolism. It belongs to category E78 (disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemias), block E70-E88 (metabolic disorders) and chapter 4 (endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within E78 (disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemias), E78.7 is specifically for disorders of bile acid and cholesterol metabolism. Related codes cover pure hypercholesterolemia (E78.0), pure hyperglyceridemia (E78.1), mixed hyperlipidemia (E78.2), Hyperchylomicronemia (E78.3), other hyperlipidemia (E78.4), hyperlipidemia, unspecified (E78.5), lipoprotein deficiency (E78.6), other disorders of lipoprotein metabolism (E78.8) and 1 more.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: E78.70 (unspecified), E78.71 (syndrome), E78.72 (syndrome) and E78.79 (metabolism).

Don't report E78.7 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: Niemann-Pick disease type C (E75.242).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.