2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code E88.A

Wasting disease (syndrome) due to underlying condition

• E88.A is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
• ICD-10-CM E88.A is a new 2024 ICD-10-CM code that became effective on October 1, 2023.
• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of E88.A – other international versions of ICD-10 E88.A may differ.

Applicable To

• Cachexia due to underlying condition

Code First

• underlying condition

Type 1 Excludes

• cachexia NOS (R64)
• nutritional marasmus (E41)

Type 2 Excludes

• failure to thrive (R62.51, R62.7)

The following code(s) above E88.A contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to E88.A:

• E00-E89  Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
• E70-E88  Metabolic disorders
• E88  Other and unspecified metabolic disorders

ICD-10-CM E88.A is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v41.0):

• 642 Inborn and other disorders of metabolism

Code History

• 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): New code

Code annotations containing back-references to E88.A:

• Type 1 Excludes: R64

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to E88.A:

• CachexiaE43
  • due to
    • underlying condition E88.A
• Disease, diseased – see also Syndrome
  • wasting NEC E88.A
    • due to
      • underlying condition E88.A
• Syndrome – see also Disease
  • wasting E88.A (syndrome)
• Wasting
  • disease (syndrome) E88.A
    • due to
      • underlying condition E88.A