ICD-10-CM Code E87.6

Valid for Submission

E87.6 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of hypokalemia. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code E87.6 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like acute hypokalemia, chronic hypokalemia, dietary potassium - low, dietary potassium intake - finding, dietary potassium intake - finding, drug-induced hypokalemia, etc

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code E87.6:

Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.

• Potassium K deficiency

Index to Diseases and Injuries

The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code E87.6 are found in the index:

• - Deficiency, deficient
  • - kalium - E87.6
  • - potassium (K) - E87.6

• - Depletion
  • - potassium - E87.6

• - Findings, abnormal, inconclusive, without diagnosis - See Also: Abnormal;
  • - potassium (deficiency) - E87.6

• - Hypokalemia - E87.6

• - Hypopotassemia - E87.6

• - Syndrome - See Also: Disease;
  • - hypokalemic - E87.6
  • - hypopotassemia - E87.6

Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

• Acute hypokalemia
• Chronic hypokalemia
• Dietary potassium - low
• Dietary potassium intake - finding
• Dietary potassium intake - finding
• Drug-induced hypokalemia
• Hypokalemia
• Hypokalemia with normal acid-base balance
• Hypokalemia, ECF to ICF shifts
• Hypokalemia, gastrointestinal losses
• Hypokalemia, inadequate intake
• Hypokalemic acidosis
• Inadequate dietary intake of potassium
• Nutritional myopathy
• Paraneoplastic hypokalemia
• Potassium depletion myopathy

Clinical Information

• HYPOKALEMIA-. abnormally low potassium concentration in the blood. it may result from potassium loss by renal secretion or by the gastrointestinal route as by vomiting or diarrhea. it may be manifested clinically by neuromuscular disorders ranging from weakness to paralysis by electrocardiographic abnormalities depression of the t wave and elevation of the u wave by renal disease and by gastrointestinal disorders. dorland 27th ed
• GITELMAN SYNDROME-. an inherited renal disorder characterized by defective nacl reabsorption in the convoluted distal kidney tubule leading to hypokalemia. in contrast with bartter syndrome gitelman syndrome includes hypomagnesemia and normocalcemic hypocalciuria and is caused by mutations in the thiazide sensitive sodium potassium chloride symporters.

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code E87.6 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.

• 640 - MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC
• 641 - MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC

Convert E87.6 to ICD-9

• 276.8 - Hypopotassemia

Code Classification

• Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00–E90)
  • Metabolic disorders (E70-E88)
    • Other disorders of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance (E87)

Code History

• FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
  (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
• FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
• FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
• FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
• FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020

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