ICD-10-CM › E00-E89 › E50-E64 › E61 Deficiency of other nutrient elements › E61.6

E61.6

Vanadium deficiency

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Vanadium deficiency

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 E61 Deficiency of other nutrient elements

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • disorders of mineral metabolism (E83.-)
  • iodine deficiency related thyroid disorders (E00-E02)
  • sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E64.-)

Use additional code

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)

Inherited from the E50-E64 section Other nutritional deficiencies (E50-E64)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • nutritional anemias (D50-D53)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
E61.0 Copper deficiency Valid
E61.1 Iron deficiency Valid
E61.2 Magnesium deficiency Valid
E61.3 Manganese deficiency Valid
E61.4 Chromium deficiency Valid
E61.5 Molybdenum deficiency Valid
E61.7 Deficiency of multiple nutrient elements Valid
E61.8 Deficiency of other specified nutrient elements Valid
E61.9 Deficiency of nutrient element, unspecified Valid