E07.9 — Disorder of thyroid, unspecified
E07.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for disorder of thyroid, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
E07.9 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
E07.9 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies — 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56722Billing and Coding: Intraoperative Neurophysiological Testing
- A57029Billing and Coding: Ultrasound, Soft Tissues of Head and Neck
How E07.9 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 E07.9.
- Dysthyroidism
- Disease, diseased›thyroid(gland)
- Disorder›thyroid(gland)
- Dysfunction›thyroid
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E07. If E07.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E07.9
- Is E07.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. E07.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does E07.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Disorders of thyroid gland (E00-E07).