ICD-10-CM Code E71.44
Other secondary carnitine deficiency
NON-BILLABLE
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ICD-10 from 2011 - 2016
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 E71.44 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the two child codes of E71.44 that describes the diagnosis 'other secondary carnitine deficiency' in more detail.
- E71.44 Other secondary carnitine deficiency NON-BILLABLE
The ICD code E71 is used to code Congenital disorders of amino acid metabolism
Inborn errors of amino acid metabolism are metabolic disorders which impair the synthesis and degradation of amino acids.
| Specialty: | Endocrinology |
| MeSH Code: | D000592 |
| ICD 9 Code: | 270 |
The general structure of an α-amino acid, with the amino group on the left and the carboxyl group on the right.
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'E71.44 - Other secondary carnitine deficiency'
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Parent Code: E71.4 - Disorders of carnitine metabolism