Version 2024

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code E75.27

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease

ICD-10-CM Code:
E75.27
ICD-10 Code for:
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
    (E00–E89)
    • Metabolic disorders
      (E70-E88)
      • Disorders of sphingolipid metabolism and other lipid storage disorders
        (E75)

E75.27 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of pelizaeus-merzbacher disease. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Clinical Information

  • Other Sphingolipidosis|Other sphingolipidosis

    evidence of other sphingolipidosis not specified elsewhere.
  • Sphingolipidosis

    an inherited metabolic disorder that affects the metabolism of the spinhgolipids. representative examples include gaucher disease, tay-sachs disease, and niemann-pick disease.

New 2024 ICD-10-CM Code

E75.27 is new to ICD-10-CM code set for the FY 2024, effective October 1, 2023. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has published an update to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes which became effective October 1, 2023. This is a new and revised code for the FY 2024 (October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024).

Index to Diseases and Injuries References

The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).

Replacement Code

E7527 replaces the following previously assigned ICD-10-CM code(s):

  • E75.29 - Other sphingolipidosis

Code History

  • FY 2024 - Code Added, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024