E10.A
E10.A — Type 1 diabetes mellitus, presymptomatic
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
E10.A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for type 1 diabetes mellitus, presymptomatic. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Early-stage type 1 diabetes mellitus
Other codes that can never be billed with E10.A
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at E10.A. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading E10.A alone.
- R73.0Abnormal glucose
Risk adjustment
E10.A does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead E10.A
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E10. If E10.A is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- E10.1Type 1 diabetes mellitus with ketoacidosis
- E10.2Type 1 diabetes mellitus with kidney complications
- E10.3Type 1 diabetes mellitus with ophthalmic complications
- E10.4Type 1 diabetes mellitus with neurological complications
- E10.5Type 1 diabetes mellitus with circulatory complications
- E10.6Type 1 diabetes mellitus with other specified complications
- E10.8Type 1 diabetes mellitus with unspecified complications
- E10.9Type 1 diabetes mellitus without complications
Questions about E10.A
- Is E10.A a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. E10.A is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does E10.A sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Diabetes mellitus (E08-E13).