Kwashiorkor
Billable / specific
E40 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- Note: All neoplasms, whether functionally active or not, are classified in Chapter 2. Appropriate codes in this chapter (i.e. E05.8, E07.0, E16-E31, E34.-) may be used as additional codes to indicate either functional activity by neoplasms and ectopic endocrine tissue or hyperfunction and hypofunction of endocrine glands associated with neoplasms and other conditions classified elsewhere.
Applicable to
- Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair
- Edema, edematous, nutritional, with dyspigmentation, skin and hair
- Malnutrition, malignant
- Malnutrition, severe, with kwashiorkor
- Pluricarential syndrome of infancy
- Polycarential syndrome of infancy
- Syndrome, pluricarential of infancy
- Syndrome, plurideficiency
- Syndrome, polycarential of infancy
Related codes
- E41Nutritional marasmusBillable
- E42Marasmic kwashiorkorBillable
- E43Unspecified severe protein-calorie malnutritionBillable
- E44Protein-calorie malnutrition of moderate and mild degreeHeader
- E45Retarded development following protein-calorie malnutritionBillable
- E46Unspecified protein-calorie malnutritionBillable