E24.0 — Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
E24.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for pituitary-dependent cushing's disease. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Overproduction of pituitary ACTH
- Pituitary-dependent hypercorticalism
Other codes that can never be billed with E24.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at E24.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading E24.0 alone.
- E22Hyperfunction of pituitary gland
Risk adjustment
E24.0 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.
Medicare coverage
E24.0 is named in 12 Medicare coverage policies — 12 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A54923Billing and Coding: Bariatric Surgery for Treatment of Co-Morbidities Conditions Related to Morbid Obesity
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A57132Billing and Coding: Bone Mass Measurement
How E24.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to E24.0.
- Basophilism(cortico-adrenal) (Cushing's) (pituitary)
- Hypercorticalism, pituitary-dependent
- Hyperadrenocorticism›pituitary-dependent
- Cushing's›syndrome or disease›pituitary-dependent
- Hypersecretion›ACTH›pituitary
- Syndrome›Cushing's›pituitary-dependent
- Hypersecretion›hormone›ACTH›pituitary
- Syndrome›Cushing's›due to›overproduction of pituitary ACTH
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E24. If E24.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E24.0
- Is E24.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. E24.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does E24.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Disorders of other endocrine glands (E20-E35).