Diagnosis Code

E66.9 OBESITY, UNSPECIFIED


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: E66.9

Short Description: Obesity, unspecified

Long Description: Obesity, unspecified

The code E66.9 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00–E89)
    • Overweight, obesity and other hyperalimentation (E65-E68)
      • Overweight and obesity (E66)
        • E66.9 Obesity, unspecified

This code is valid for questionable admission codes

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Attends obesity monitoring
  • Attends slimming clinic
  • Benign intracranial hypertension
  • Body mass index 30+ - obesity
  • Central obesity
  • Childhood obesity
  • Choroideremia
  • Choroideremia with deafness and obesity syndrome
  • Cognitive impairment, coarse facies, heart defects, obesity, pulmonary involvement, short stature, skeletal dysplasia syndrome
  • Colobomatous microphthalmia
  • Colobomatous microphthalmia, obesity, hypogenitalism, intellectual disability syndrome
  • Congenital mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
  • Deafness, encephaloneuropathy, obesity, valvulopathy syndrome
  • Difficulty maintaining weight loss
  • Excess subcutaneous fat
  • Fetal disorder due to maternal obesity
  • Fetal disorder due to maternal obesity with adult body mass index 30 or greater but less than 40
  • Fetal disorder due to maternal obesity with adult body mass index equal to or greater than 40
  • Generalized obesity
  • Has seen dietitian - obesity
  • Impaired glucose tolerance in obese
  • Increased body mass index
  • Intellectual disability, obesity, brain malformation, facial dysmorphism syndrome
  • Intellectual disability, obesity, prognathism, eye and skin anomalies syndrome
  • Intellectual disability, seizures, macrocephaly, obesity syndrome
  • Lifelong obesity
  • Lower body obesity
  • Lymphedema associated with obesity
  • Mixed conductive AND sensorineural hearing loss
  • MOMO syndrome
  • Myelopathy due to obesity
  • Neurological disorder due to obesity
  • Neurological disorder due to obesity
  • Neurological disorder due to obesity
  • Neurological disorder due to obesity
  • Neurological disorder due to obesity
  • Neuropathy due to obesity
  • Obese
  • Obese build
  • Obese class I
  • Obese class II
  • Obesity
  • Obesity associated disorder
  • Obesity by adipocyte growth pattern
  • Obesity by contributing factors
  • Obesity by fat distribution pattern
  • Obesity due to leptin receptor gene deficiency
  • Obesity in adolescence
  • Obesity in mother complicating childbirth
  • Obesity monitoring check done
  • Obesity monitoring default
  • Obesity monitoring deleted
  • Peripheral neuropathy due to obesity
  • PHIP-related behavioral problems, intellectual disability, obesity, dysmorphic features syndrome
  • Pseudoneoplasm cerebri due to obesity
  • Reason for obesity therapy - occupational
  • Seen by dietitian
  • Sees or has seen dietician
  • Severe obesity
  • Simple obesity
  • Skin striae
  • Skin striae due to obesity
  • Treatment of obesity changed
  • Treatment of obesity started
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus in obese
  • Understands reducing diet
  • X-linked intellectual disability, hypogonadism, ichthyosis, obesity, short stature syndrome
  • X-linked sensorineural hearing loss

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code E66.9 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes With Mcc (640)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes Without Mcc (641)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code E66.9 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Inclusion Terms:
    • Obesity NOS

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
E66.9 Right Arrow 278.00 Obesity NOS

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
E66 Overweight and obesity
E66.0 Obesity due to excess calories
E66.01 Morbid (severe) obesity due to excess calories
E66.09 Other obesity due to excess calories
E66.1 Drug-induced obesity
E66.2 Morbid (severe) obesity with alveolar hypoventilation
E66.3 Overweight
E66.8 Other obesity


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