ICD-10-CM Code E23.6

Valid for Submission

E23.6 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other disorders of pituitary gland. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code E23.6 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like abnormality of neurotensine secretion, abnormality of somatostatin secretion, adiposogenital dystrophy, anterior pituitary hyperplasia, autoimmune encephalitis, autoimmune hypophysitis, etc

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code E23.6:

Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.

• Abscess of pituitary
• Adiposogenital dystrophy

Index to Diseases and Injuries

The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code E23.6 are found in the index:

• - Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic) - L02.91
  • - pituitary (gland) - E23.6

• - Adiposis - See Also: Obesity;
  • - cerebralis - E23.6

• - Adiposogenital dystrophy - E23.6

• - Cyst (colloid) (mucous) (simple) (retention)
  • - craniobuccal pouch - E23.6
  • - craniopharyngeal pouch - E23.6
  • - hypophysis, hypophyseal (duct) (recurrent) - E23.6
    • - cerebri - E23.6
  • - intrasellar - E23.6
  • - pituitary (duct) (gland) - E23.6
  • - Rathke's pouch - E23.6

• - Degeneration, degenerative
  • - pituitary (gland) - E23.6

• - Disorder (of) - See Also: Disease;
  • - pituitary gland - E23.7
    • - specified NEC - E23.6

• - Dystrophy, dystrophia
  • - adiposogenital - E23.6

• - Embolism (multiple) (paradoxical) - I74.9
  • - pituitary - E23.6

• - Fröhlich's syndrome - E23.6

• - Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) - R58
  • - pituitary (gland) - E23.6

• - Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
  • - pituitary (anterior) (fossa) (gland) - E23.6

• - Hypoplasia, hypoplastic
  • - genitalia, genital organ (s)
    • - in adiposogenital dystrophy - E23.6

• - Infarct, infarction
  • - hypophysis (anterior lobe) - E23.6
  • - pituitary (gland) - E23.6

• - Obesity - E66.9
  • - pituitary - E23.6

• - Syndrome - See Also: Disease;
  • - adiposogenital - E23.6

Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

• Abnormality of neurotensine secretion
• Abnormality of somatostatin secretion
• Adiposogenital dystrophy
• Anterior pituitary hyperplasia
• Autoimmune encephalitis
• Autoimmune hypophysitis
• Colloid brain cyst
• Colloid cyst of pituitary gland
• Corticotroph hyperplasia
• Diencephalic syndrome
• Diencephalic syndrome
• Diencephalic syndrome of infancy
• Diencephalic syndrome secondary to tumor
• Disorder of posterior pituitary
• Empty sella syndrome
• Endogenous obesity
• Gonadotroph hyperplasia
• Granulomatous giant-cell hypophysitis
• Hypoparathyroidism due to impaired PTH secretion
• Hypophysitis
• Hypophysitis
• Hypothalamic disorder of appetite
• Hypothalamic obesity
• Iatrogenic pituitary disorder
• Isolated thyroliberin deficiency
• Lactotroph hyperplasia
• Lymphocytic hypophysitis of pregnancy
• Lymphocytic hypopituitarism
• Necrosis of pituitary
• Obesity of endocrine origin
• Oxytocin deficiency
• Pituitary apoplexy
• Pituitary cyst
• Pituitary fibrosis
• Pituitary fibrosis with midline fibrosis
• Pituitary gland enlarged
• Pituitary granuloma
• Pituitary hemorrhage
• Pituitary hemorrhage
• Pituitary infarction
• Pituitary stalk compression
• Pituitary stalk compression hyperprolactinemia
• Postpartum intrapituitary hemorrhage
• Rathke's pouch cyst
• Somatotroph hyperplasia
• Syndrome of diencephalo-hypophyseal origin
• Thyrotroph hyperplasia

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code E23.6 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.

• 643 - ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH MCC
• 644 - ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH CC
• 645 - ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITHOUT CC/MCC

Convert E23.6 to ICD-9

• 253.8 - Pituitary disorder NEC (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00–E90)
  • Disorders of other endocrine glands (E20-E35)
    • Hypofunction and other disorders of the pituitary gland (E23)

Code History

• FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
  (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
• FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
• FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
• FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
• FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020

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