Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease

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 E24 Cushing's syndrome

Excludes1 - never coded here

congenital adrenal hyperplasia (E25.0)

Inherited from the E20-E35 section Disorders of other endocrine glands (E20-E35)

Excludes1 - never coded here

galactorrhea (N64.3)
gynecomastia (N62)

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.

Overproduction
Hypercorticosolism
Adrenocortical syndrome
Syndrome > adrenocortical
Excess, excessive, excessively > secretion
Increase, increased > function > adrenal > cortex
Basophilism
Hypersecretion > ACTH > pituitary
Hypercorticalism, pituitary-dependent
Hyperadrenocorticism > pituitary-dependent
Syndrome > Cushing's > pituitary-dependent
Hypersecretion > hormone > ACTH > pituitary
Cushing's > syndrome or disease > pituitary-dependent
Syndrome > Cushing's > due to > overproduction of pituitary ACTH

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
E24.1	Nelson's syndrome	Valid
E24.2	Drug-induced Cushing's syndrome	Valid
E24.3	Ectopic ACTH syndrome	Valid
E24.4	Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing's syndrome	Valid
E24.8	Other Cushing's syndrome	Valid
E24.9	Cushing's syndrome, unspecified	Valid