DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

Category · FY2027

E63 Other nutritional deficiencies

  • Header · not billable

E63 is not billable. The category heads 4 billable codes in FY2027: the 4 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Nutrition deficient or insufficient → E63.9
  • Deficiency, deficientdiet → E63.9
  • Disturbance(s)nutritional → E63.9

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 4 Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89)
  2. E50-E64 Other nutritional deficiencies (E50-E64)
  3. E63 Other nutritional deficiencies
Billable codes
4
Subdivisions
4
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
20

Codes in E63

  1. E63.0
    Essential fatty acid [EFA] deficiency
    Billable
  2. E63.1
    Imbalance of constituents of food intake
    Billable
  3. E63.8
    Other specified nutritional deficiencies
    Billable
  4. E63.9
    Nutritional deficiency, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At E63

Excludes2

  • dehydration (E86.0) E86.0
  • failure to thrive, adult (R62.7) R62.7
  • failure to thrive, child (R62.51) R62.51
  • feeding problems in newborn (P92.-) P92
  • sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E64.-) E64

Notes that also apply

Block E50-E64 instructions (Excludes2 1): printed on the block page.

Chapter 4 instructions (Notes 1, Excludes1 1): printed on the chapter 4 page.

Index entries

  • Nutrition deficient or insufficient → E63.9
  • Deficiency, deficientessential fatty acid (EFA) → E63.0
  • Imbalanceconstituents of food intake → E63.1
  • Nutrition deficient or insufficientspecified NEC → E63.8
  • Cardiomyopathy (familial) (idiopathic)nutritional → E63.9 [I43]
  • Deficiency, deficientdiet → E63.9
  • Deficiency, deficientnutrition, nutritional → E63.9
  • Dietaryinadequacy or deficiency → E63.9
  • Disease, diseasednutritional → E63.9
  • Disturbance(s)nutritional → E63.9
  • Gastritis (simple)due to diet deficiency → E63.9
  • Inadequate, inadequacydiet (causing nutritional deficiency) → E63.9
  • Insufficiency, insufficientdietary → E63.9
  • Polyneuritis, polyneuriticnutritional → E63.9 [G63]
  • Polyneuropathy (peripheral)nutritional NEC → E63.9 [G63]
  • Deficiency, deficientnutrition, nutritionalspecified NEC → E63.8
  • Fooddeprivationspecified kind of food NEC → E63.8
  • Arthropathyin (due to)nutritional deficiency → E63.9
  • Cataract (cortical) (immature) (incipient)in (due to)nutritional disease → E63.9 [H28]
  • Polyneuropathy (peripheral)in (due to)nutritional deficiency NEC → E63.9 [G63]

NCHS Alphabetic Index. Index first, then the Tabular List.

Hierarchy