ICD-10-CM Code E51.1
Beriberi
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code E51.1 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the two child codes of E51.1 that describes the diagnosis 'beriberi' in more detail.
- E51.1 Beriberi NON-BILLABLE
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- BILLABLE E51.11 Dry beriberi
- BILLABLE E51.12 Wet beriberi
The ICD code E511 is used to code Beriberi
Beriberi refers to a cluster of symptoms caused primarily by a nutritional deficit in vitamin B1 (thiamine). Beriberi has conventionally been divided into three separate entities, relating to the body system mainly involved (peripheral nervous system or cardiovascular) or age of person (infantile). Beriberi is one of several thiamine-deficiency related conditions which may occur concurrently, including Wernicke's encephalopathy (mainly affecting the central nervous system), Korsakoff's syndrome (amnesia with additional psychiatric manifestations), and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (with both neurologic and psychiatric symptoms).
| Specialty: | Neurology, Cardiology, Pediatrics |
| MeSH Code: | D001602 |
| ICD 9 Code: | 265.0 |
A sufferer from beriberi – turn of the 20th century in southeast Asia
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'E51.1 - Beriberi'
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Parent Code: E51 - Thiamine deficiency