E23.0
E23.0: Hypopituitarism
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
E23.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hypopituitarism. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check E23.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberUse additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- code, if applicable, for associated cachexia (E88.A)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Fertile eunuch syndrome
- Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
- Idiopathic growth hormone deficiency
- Isolated deficiency of gonadotropin
- Isolated deficiency of growth hormone
- Isolated deficiency of pituitary hormone
- Kallmann's syndrome
- Lorain-Levi short stature
- Necrosis of pituitary gland (postpartum)
- Panhypopituitarism
- Pituitary cachexia
- Pituitary insufficiency NOS
- Pituitary short stature
- Sheehan's syndrome
- Simmonds' disease
Other codes that can never be billed with E23.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
E23.0 is named in 11 Medicare coverage policies: 11 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56631Billing and Coding: Thoracic Aortography and Carotid, Vertebral, and Subclavian Angiography
- A56799Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Ahumada-del Castillo syndrome
- Fertile eunuch syndrome
- Hypopituitarism(juvenile)
- Kallmann's syndrome
- Lorain short stature syndrome(-Levi)
- Panhypopituitarism
- Sheehan's disease or syndrome
- Simmonds' cachexia or disease
- Brissaud's›infantilism or dwarfism
- Cachexia›hypophyseal
- Cachexia›hypopituitary
- Cachexia›pituitary
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.