ICD-10-CM › E00-E89 › E00-E07 › E06 Thyroiditis › E06.0
E06.0
Acute thyroiditis
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Acute thyroiditis
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from E06 Thyroiditis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- postpartum thyroiditis (O90.5)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Carbunculus
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > thyroid
- Abscess > thyroid
- Thyroiditis > acute
- Thyroiditis > pyogenic
- Thyroiditis > suppurative
- Suppuration, suppurative > thyroid
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| E06.1 | Subacute thyroiditis | Valid |
| E06.2 | Chronic thyroiditis with transient thyrotoxicosis | Valid |
| E06.3 | Autoimmune thyroiditis | Valid |
| E06.4 | Drug-induced thyroiditis | Valid |
| E06.5 | Other chronic thyroiditis | Valid |
| E06.9 | Thyroiditis, unspecified | Valid |