E63.9
E63.9: Nutritional deficiency, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
E63.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for nutritional deficiency, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check E63.9 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2 inherited from the categories above E63.9
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with E63.9
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- E46Unspecified protein-calorie malnutrition
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
E63.9 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Nutrition deficient or insufficient
- Cardiomyopathy›nutritional
- Deficiency, deficient›diet
- Deficiency, deficient›nutrition, nutritional
- Dietary›inadequacy or deficiency
- Disease, diseased›nutritional
- Disturbance›nutritional
- Gastritis›due to diet deficiency
- Inadequate, inadequacy›diet(causing nutritional deficiency)
- Insufficiency, insufficient›dietary
- Polyneuritis, polyneuritic›nutritional
- Polyneuropathy›nutritional NEC
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.