Niacin deficiency [pellagra]
Billable / specific
E52 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- Note: All neoplasms, whether functionally active or not, are classified in Chapter 2. Appropriate codes in this chapter (i.e. E05.8, E07.0, E16-E31, E34.-) may be used as additional codes to indicate either functional activity by neoplasms and ectopic endocrine tissue or hyperfunction and hypofunction of endocrine glands associated with neoplasms and other conditions classified elsewhere.
Applicable to
- Niacin (-tryptophan) deficiency
- Nicotinamide deficiency
- Pellagra (alcoholic)
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- Niacin (-tryptophan) deficiency
- Nicotinamide deficiency
- Pellagra (alcoholic)
- Acid, deficiency, amide nicotinic
- Acid, deficiency, nicotinic
- Alcohol, alcoholic, alcohol-induced, pellagra
- Avitaminosis, B, with pellagra
- Avitaminosis, nicotinic acid
- Cheilosis, with pellagra
- Deficiency, deficient, niacin
- Deficiency, deficient, nicotinamide
- Deficiency, deficient, nicotinic acid
- Deficiency, deficient, vitaminNOS, nicotinic
- Deficiency, deficient, vitaminNOS, PP
- Dementia, in niacin deficiency
- Dementia, in niacin deficiency, with behavioral disturbance
- Dementia, in pellagra
- Dementia, in pellagra, with behavioral disturbance
Related codes
- E50Vitamin A deficiencyHeader
- E51Thiamine deficiencyHeader
- E53Deficiency of other B group vitaminsHeader
- E54Ascorbic acid deficiencyBillable
- E55Vitamin D deficiencyHeader
- E56Other vitamin deficienciesHeader
- E58Dietary calcium deficiencyBillable
- E59Dietary selenium deficiencyBillable
- E60Dietary zinc deficiencyBillable
- E61Deficiency of other nutrient elementsHeader
- E63Other nutritional deficienciesHeader
- E64Sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficienciesHeader