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E09

Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:

  • E09.0 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with hyperosmolarity (also a header)
  • E09.1 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with ketoacidosis (also a header)
  • E09.2 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with kidney complications (also a header)
  • E09.3 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with ophthalmic complications (also a header)
  • E09.4 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with neurological complications (also a header)
  • E09.5 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with circulatory complications (also a header)
  • E09.6 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with other specified complications (also a header)
  • E09.8 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with unspecified complications
  • E09.9 Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus without complications

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition (E08.-)
  • gestational diabetes (O24.4-)
  • neonatal diabetes mellitus (P70.2)
  • postpancreatectomy diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
  • postprocedural diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
  • secondary diabetes mellitus NEC (E13.-)
  • type 1 diabetes mellitus (E10.-)
  • type 2 diabetes mellitus (E11.-)

Use additional code

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
  • code to identify control using:
  • injectable non-insulin antidiabetic drugs (Z79.85)
  • insulin (Z79.4)
  • oral antidiabetic drugs (Z79.84)
  • oral hypoglycemic drugs (Z79.84)

Code first

  • poisoning due to drug or toxin, if applicable (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4)

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.