T73.0
T73.0: Starvation
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T73.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for starvation. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T73
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Deprivation of food
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Famine(effects of)
- Hunger
- Starvation(inanition) (due to lack of food)
- Deprivation›food
- Effect, adverse›hunger
- Food›deprivation
- Food›lack of
- Insufficiency, insufficient›food
- Insufficiency, insufficient›nourishment
- Inadequate, inadequacy›food NEC›hunger effects
- Inanition›due to›deprivation of food
- Nutrition deficient or insufficient›due to›insufficient food
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T73.0
3 child codes. Green means billable.