E34.9
E34.9 — Endocrine disorder, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
E34.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for endocrine disorder, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Endocrine disturbance NOS
- Hormone disturbance NOS
Risk adjustment
E34.9 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.
How E34.9 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 E34.9.
- Dysendocrinism
- Complication›endocrine
- Deficiency, deficient›endocrine
- Disease, diseased›ductless glands
- Disease, diseased›endocrine glands or system NEC
- Disorder›endocrine
- Disturbance›endocrine(gland)
- Disturbance›hormones
- Dysfunction›endocrine NOS
- Dysfunction›gland, glandular NOS
- Imbalance›endocrine
- Imbalance›hormone
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E34. If E34.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E34.9
- Is E34.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. E34.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does E34.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Disorders of other endocrine glands (E20-E35).