Obesity due to excess calories

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 2 more specific codes instead:

E66.01 Morbid (severe) obesity due to excess calories
E66.09 Other obesity due to excess calories

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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Obesity due to excess calories

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 E66 Overweight and obesity

Excludes2 - not included here

adiposogenital dystrophy (E23.6)
lipomatosis dolorosa [Dercum] (E88.2)
lipomatosis NOS (E88.2)
Prader-Willi syndrome (Q87.11)

Use additional code

code to identify body mass index (BMI), if known, for adults (Z68.1-Z68.45) or pediatrics (Z68.5-)

Code first

obesity complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, if applicable (O99.21-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
E66.1	Drug-induced obesity	Valid
E66.2	Morbid (severe) obesity with alveolar hypoventilation	Valid
E66.3	Overweight	Valid
E66.8	Other obesity	Not billable
E66.9	Obesity, unspecified	Valid