E34.31
E34.31: Constitutional short stature
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
E34.31 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for constitutional short stature. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check E34.31 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Constitutional delay of growth, puberty, or maturation
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E34.31
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on E34.3: Short stature due to endocrine disorder
- achondroplastic short stature (Q77.4)
- hypochondroplastic short stature (Q77.4)
- nutritional short stature (E45)
- pituitary short stature (E23.0)
- progeria (E34.8)
- renal short stature (N25.0)
- Russell-Silver syndrome (Q87.19)
- short-limbed stature with immunodeficiency (D82.2)
- short stature (child) (R62.52)
- short stature in specific dysmorphic syndromes - code to syndrome - see Alphabetical Index
- short stature NOS (R62.52)
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
E34.31 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Dwarfism›constitutional
- Short, shortening, shortness›stature NEC›constitutional
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.