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E55.0

Rickets, active

Billable

Code Hierarchy

E55E55.0

Chapter: 4. Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases

Section: E50-E64 - Other nutritional deficiencies

Coding Guidelines

Inclusion Terms

  • Infantile osteomalacia
  • Juvenile osteomalacia

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with E55.0

  • K90.0 - celiac rickets (K90.0)
  • Crohn's rickets (K50.-)
  • E83.32 - hereditary vitamin D-dependent rickets (E83.32)
  • E64.3 - inactive rickets (E64.3)
  • N25.0 - renal rickets (N25.0)
  • E64.3 - sequelae of rickets (E64.3)
  • E83.31 - vitamin D-resistant rickets (E83.31)

Related Codes

E55.9Billable

Vitamin D deficiency, unspecified

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