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E23.0 ICD-10-CM Code: Hypopituitarism

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
16 inclusion terms · 4 Excludes1 · 1 use-additional code
Risk adjustment
CMS-HCC V22 category 23 · RxHCC V08 category 43

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 643 — ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 10)
  • MS-DRG 644 — ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH CC (MDC 10)
  • MS-DRG 645 — ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 10)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for E23.0 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Notes without a marker are published on E23.0 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • the listed conditions whether the disorder is in the pituitary or the hypothalamus

Source: inherited from E23

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Fertile eunuch syndrome
  • Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
  • Idiopathic growth hormone deficiency
  • Isolated deficiency of gonadotropin
  • Isolated deficiency of growth hormone
  • Isolated deficiency of pituitary hormone
  • Kallmann's syndrome
  • Lorain-Levi short stature
  • Necrosis of pituitary gland (postpartum)
  • Panhypopituitarism
  • Pituitary cachexia
  • Pituitary insufficiency NOS
  • Pituitary short stature
  • Sheehan's syndrome
  • Simmonds' disease

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Use Additional Code

Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.

  • Use additional code, if applicable, for associated cachexia (E88.A)

Coder workflow for E23.0

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Before you code E23.0

  1. Check the Excludes1 note: if the documentation supports a condition named there, do not simply proceed with E23.0. Excludes1 conditions are not reported together with this code unless the record shows they are unrelated (Guidelines I.A.12.a).

    See the official tabular notes

Choose the right path

  1. Does the documentation support a condition named in E23.0’s Excludes1 note?
    Yes → Do not simply proceed: review the excluded code. Both are reported only when the record shows the two conditions are unrelated.
    No → Continue.

    ReviewE89.3, E34.3, N64.3, N62

Consider E23.0. Then work the Use Additional Code note, and confirm the code is valid for the date of service in the Verify section.

Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement
Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).
The conditions the Use Additional Code note names
Reported with this code when documented; a conditional instruction (“if applicable”, “if known”) applies only when the record supports it.

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes1 — check before selecting E23.0(4 notes)

    Coding workflow: If the documentation supports a condition named in this note, do not simply proceed with E23.0: the two are not reported together. The one exception is when the record shows the two conditions are unrelated to each other.

    CompareE89.3, E34.3, N64.3, N62

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.a

  • Use Additional Code — after identifying E23.0(1 note)

    Coding workflow: Check whether the documentation supports the additional code(s) the note names, and report them with E23.0 when it does. Where the instruction is conditional (“if applicable”, “if known”), it applies only when the record documents the condition.

    ReviewE88.A

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.13

Coding decision scenarios

Pattern scenarios for this code’s structure — decision rules, not clinical cases

Documentation: Both the condition E23.0 describes and a condition named in its Excludes1 note are documented for the same encounter.

Coding question: Can both codes be reported?

Path: Review the Excludes1 note and the excluded code, and look for a provider statement on whether the two conditions are related.

Reason: Excludes1 means the two are not coded together; the exception is when the record shows the conditions are unrelated to each other (Guidelines I.A.12.a).

ReviewE89.3, E34.3, N64.3, N62

Documentation: A condition the Use Additional Code note names is documented.

Coding question: Is a second code reported with E23.0?

Path: Review the Use Additional Code note and the code it names.

Reason: The additional code is reported when the record documents the condition; a conditional instruction applies only when its condition is met (Guidelines I.A.13).

ReviewE88.A

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Code Overview

Hypopituitarism is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (E23.0).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (44)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Verify Before Coding

  • CC as a secondary diagnosis (FY2026). Can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name E23.0 or its code family, from the CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes. Tabular-note edges are stored at the code family level that carries each note.

Referenced by 4 Excludes1 notes across 2 chapters: E28 — Ovarian dysfunction, E29 — Testicular dysfunction, E34.3 — Short stature due to endocrine disorder, R62 — Lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood and adults.

These codes’ tabular lists mark this diagnosis as mutually exclusive — not reported together unless the conditions are documented as unrelated.

Referenced by 1 Excludes2 note: N97 — Female infertility.

These codes’ tabular lists name this diagnosis as distinct — both may be reported when both are documented.

Referenced by 1 Code First instruction: G63 — Polyneuropathy in diseases classified elsewhere (via E23.-).

Each of these codes carries a Code First note naming this condition — when that code is reported, THIS code is sequenced first, ahead of it.

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 MS-DRG: CC — Complication or Comorbidity. Reported as a secondary diagnosis, this code raises the stay's MS-DRG severity tier — except when the principal diagnosis is one of 21 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 3 MS-DRGs: DRG 643 (MDC 10), DRG 644 (MDC 10), DRG 645 (MDC 10).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):END013 — Pituitary disorders (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical process (MS-DRG)

Acts as CC — raises the severity of other admissions. CMS groups these diagnoses into one MS-DRG principal-diagnosis exclusion process — a CC/MCC on this list never raises severity when the principal diagnosis is also on it.

E22.0 — Acromegaly and pituitary gigantism, E22.1 — Hyperprolactinemia, E22.2 — Syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone, E22.8 — Other hyperfunction of pituitary gland, E22.9 — Hyperfunction of pituitary gland, unspecified, E23.1 — Drug-induced hypopituitarism, E23.2 — Diabetes insipidus, E23.3 — Hypothalamic dysfunction, not elsewhere classified, E23.6 — Other disorders of pituitary gland, E23.7 — Disorder of pituitary gland, unspecified, E24.1 — Nelson's syndrome, E30.9 — Disorder of puberty, unspecified, E34.1 — Other hypersecretion of intestinal hormones, E34.4 — Constitutional tall stature, E34.50 — Androgen insensitivity syndrome, unspecified, E34.51 — Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, E34.52 — Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome, E34.8 — Other specified endocrine disorders, E34.9 — Endocrine disorder, unspecified, E89.3 — Postprocedural hypopituitarism

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Pituitary disorders).

E22.0 — Acromegaly and pituitary gigantism, E22.1 — Hyperprolactinemia, E22.2 — Syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone, E22.8 — Other hyperfunction of pituitary gland, E22.9 — Hyperfunction of pituitary gland, unspecified, E23.1 — Drug-induced hypopituitarism, E23.2 — Diabetes insipidus, E23.3 — Hypothalamic dysfunction, not elsewhere classified, E23.6 — Other disorders of pituitary gland, E23.7 — Disorder of pituitary gland, unspecified, E24.0 — Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease, G11.5 — Hypomyelination - hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - hypodontia

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main terms “Myopathy”, “Deficiency, deficient”, “Hypoadrenocorticism”, …; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

E03.9 — Hypothyroidism, unspecified (in, myxedema), E05.90 — Thyrotoxicosis, unspecified without thyrotoxic crisis or storm (in, thyrotoxicosis), E05.91 — Thyrotoxicosis, unspecified with thyrotoxic crisis or storm (in, thyrotoxicosis, with thyroid storm), E16.2 — Hypoglycemia, unspecified (glucose), E16.A1 — Hypoglycemia level 1 (blood, glucose, level 1), E16.A2 — Hypoglycemia level 2 (blood, glucose, level 2), E16.A3 — Hypoglycemia level 3 (blood, glucose, level 3), E20.9 — Hypoparathyroidism, unspecified (in, hypoparathyroidism), E21.3 — Hyperparathyroidism, unspecified (in, hyperparathyroidism NEC), E22.0 — Acromegaly and pituitary gigantism (gigantism), E24.9 — Cushing's syndrome, unspecified (in, Cushing's syndrome), E25.0 — Congenital adrenogenital disorders associated with enzyme deficiency (11-hydroxylase), E27.1 — Primary adrenocortical insufficiency (primary), E27.3 — Drug-induced adrenocortical insufficiency (adrenocortical, drug-induced), E27.40 — Unspecified adrenocortical insufficiency, E27.49 — Other adrenocortical insufficiency (adrenal), E28.2 — Polycystic ovarian syndrome (female, due to, Stein-Leventhal syndrome), E28.39 — Other primary ovarian failure (estrogen), E29.1 — Testicular hypofunction, E30.0 — Delayed puberty (genitalia, genitals), +418 more

Lab tests where this diagnosis supports Medicare coverage (NCD)

Medicare's National Coverage Determination (NCD) program lists this diagnosis as medical justification for these lab tests.

Blood Glucose Test, Iron Panel, Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)

Contextual Map

Every relationship of E23.0 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Run E23.0 with these 7 related codes in Claim Check

Hierarchy

Use Additional Code

Index manifestation

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

  • N97 — Female infertility[Excludes2]: “hypopituitarism (E23.0)”— CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes · icd10cm-fy2026

Referenced by Code First instructions

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

  • CC — Complication or Comorbidity [MS-DRG severity]: “As a secondary diagnosis this code can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier (CC).”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix C) · FY2026
  • DRG 643 — ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH MCC[MS-DRG]: “ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 10)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2026
  • DRG 644 — ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH CC[MS-DRG]: “ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITH CC (MDC 10)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2026
  • DRG 645 — ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITHOUT CC/MCC[MS-DRG]: “ENDOCRINE DISORDERS WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 10)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2026

MDC crossing

  • MDC 10 — Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Disorders[MDC crossing]: “Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Disorders — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 5,008 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026

Index entries (44)

  • Ahumada-del Castillo syndrome[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Brissaud's, infantilism or dwarfism[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Cachexia, hypophyseal[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Cachexia, hypopituitary[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Cachexia, pituitary[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Cachexia, Simmonds'[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Decrease (d), function, ovary in hypopituitarism[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Decrease (d), function, pituitary (gland) (anterior) (lobe)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • and 36 more

Nearest codes

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Sources for this page

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Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v43 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
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MedCoder.ai. "E23.0 — Hypopituitarism." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/e23.0-hypopituitarism

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Hypopituitarism

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to E23.0 in its code family, with their registry titles.

View all codes in the E23 family