E22.0: Acromegaly and pituitary gigantism
E22.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for acromegaly and pituitary gigantism. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check E22.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Overproduction of growth hormone
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E22.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with E22.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- M26.0Major anomalies of jaw size
Risk adjustment
E22.0 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 51 Addison's and Cushing's Diseases, Acromegaly, and Other Specified Endocrine Disorders0.510 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.
Medicare coverage
E22.0 is named in 8 Medicare coverage policies: 8 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56531Billing and Coding: Octreotide Acetate for Injectable Suspension (Sandostatin® LAR Depot)
- A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56631Billing and Coding: Thoracic Aortography and Carotid, Vertebral, and Subclavian Angiography
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Acromegaly, acromegalia
- Erdheim's syndrome(acromegalic macrospondylitis)
- Gigantism(cerebral) (hypophyseal) (pituitary)
- Launois' syndrome(pituitary gigantism)
- Macrospondylitis , acromegalic
- Scaglietti-Dagnini syndrome
- Hypophyseal, hypophysis›gigantism
- Marie's›disease or syndrome(acromegaly)
- Overproduction›growth hormone
- Syndrome›costovertebral
- Syndrome›Erdheim's
- Syndrome›Launois'
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.