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255.0 - Cushing's Syndrome


The ICD 9 Code for Cushing's syndrome is listed as 255.0.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
ICD 9 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: 255.0
Long Description: Cushing's syndrome
Short Description: Cushing's syndrome
Chapter: Endocrine, Nutritional And Metabolic Diseases, And Immunity Disorders
Block: Diseases Of Other Endocrine Glands (249-259)
Related Descriptions: Adrenal Cushing's syndrome
Adrenocorticotropic hormone-dependent Cushing syndrome
Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing's syndrome
Artefactual pseudo-Cushing's syndrome
Cyclical Cushing's syndrome
Hypercortisolism
Hypercortisolism due to adrenal neoplasm
Hypercortisolism due to nonpituitary tumor
Hypercortisolism due to pituitary adenoma
Hypermelanosis due to Cushing syndrome
Iatrogenic Cushing's disease
Idiopathic Cushing's syndrome
Myopathy in Cushing's disease
Paraneoplastic ectopic secretion of ACTH
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: E24.0 - Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: E24.2 - Drug-induced Cushing's syndrome (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: E24.3 - Ectopic ACTH syndrome (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: E24.8 - Other Cushing's syndrome (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: E24.9 - Cushing's syndrome, unspecified (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 255.0:
255.2 - Adrenogenital disorders
255.3 - Other corticoadrenal overactivity
255.5 - Other adrenal hypofunction
255.6 - Medulloadrenal hyperfunction
255.8 - Other specified disorders of adrenal glands
255.9 - Unspecified disorder of adrenal glands