E34.3Short stature due to endocrine disorder

E34.3 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for short stature due to endocrine disorder. It belongs to category E34 (other endocrine disorders), block E20-E35 (disorders of other endocrine glands) and chapter 4 (endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within E34 (other endocrine disorders), E34.3 is specifically for short stature due to endocrine disorder. Related codes cover carcinoid syndrome (E34.0), other hypersecretion of intestinal hormones (E34.1), ectopic hormone secretion, not elsewhere classified (E34.2), constitutional tall stature (E34.4), androgen insensitivity syndrome (E34.5), other specified endocrine disorders (E34.8) and endocrine disorder, unspecified (E34.9).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: E34.30 (unspecified), E34.31 (stature), E34.32 (stature) and E34.39 (disorder).

Don't report E34.3 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: achondroplastic short stature (Q77.4), hypochondroplastic short stature (Q77.4), nutritional short stature (E45), pituitary short stature (E23.0) and 7 more.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015, and changed in FY2023 (expanded into subcodes).

Before ICD-10, this condition was coded in ICD-9-CM as 259.4 (dwarfism, not elsewhere classified).