E10.8
Type 1 diabetes mellitus with unspecified complications
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 8 more
specific codes sit alongside it. Worth
checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 10 never code together
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Excludes1
- diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition (E08.-)E08.-
- drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus (E09.-)E09.-
- gestational diabetes (O24.4-)O24.4-
- hyperglycemia NOS (R73.9)R73.9
- neonatal diabetes mellitus (P70.2)P70.2
- postpancreatectomy diabetes mellitus (E13.-)E13.-
- postprocedural diabetes mellitus (E13.-)E13.-
- secondary diabetes mellitus NEC (E13.-)E13.-
- type 2 diabetes mellitus (E11.-)E11.-
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Excludes1
- transitory endocrine and metabolic disorders specific to newborn (P70-P74)P70-P74
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Instructional notes 7
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Includes
- brittle diabetes (mellitus)
- diabetes (mellitus) due to autoimmune process
- diabetes (mellitus) due to immune mediated pancreatic islet beta-cell destruction
- idiopathic diabetes (mellitus)
- juvenile onset diabetes (mellitus)
- ketosis-prone diabetes (mellitus)
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Notes
- 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.E05.8E07.0E16-E31E34.-
Index entries leading here 1
Alongside this code 8 same parent — E10
E10.1 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with ketoacidosis category E10.2 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with kidney complications category E10.3 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with ophthalmic complications category E10.4 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with neurological complications category E10.5 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with circulatory complications category E10.6 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with other specified complications category E10.9 Type 1 diabetes mellitus without complications E10.A Type 1 diabetes mellitus, presymptomatic category
Medications 4
49 Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 drugs 232 Diabetes Mellitus drugs 114 Diabetes Complications drugs 81 Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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