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Specific code 2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 579.0
Celiac disease
  • ICD-9-CM 579.0 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 579.0 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2012 version of ICD-9-CM 579.0.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 579.0: 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 579.0 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM K90.0 Celiac disease
Applies To
  • Celiac:
    • crisis
    • infantilism
    • rickets
  • Gee (-Herter) disease
  • Gluten enteropathy
  • Idiopathic steatorrhea
  • Nontropical sprue
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 579.0:
  • Celiac
    • disease 579.0
    • infantilism 579.0
  • Crisis
    • celiac 579.0
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • celiac (adult) 579.0
      • infantile 579.0
    • Gee (-Herter) (-Heubner) (-Thaysen) (nontropical sprue) 579.0
    • Herter (-Gee) (-Heubner) (nontropical sprue) 579.0
    • Heubner-Herter (nontropical sprue) 579.0
    • Thaysen-Gee (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Enteropathy 569.9
    • gluten 579.0
  • Gee (-Herter) (-Heubner) (-Thaysen) disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Herter's infantilism (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Herter (-Gee) disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Heubner-Herter disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Infantilism 259.9
    • celiac 579.0
    • Herter's (nontropical sprue) 579.0
    • intestinal 579.0
  • Intolerance
    • gluten 579.0
  • Morbus
    • celiacus 579.0
  • Psilosis (sprue) (tropical) 579.1
    • nontropical 579.0
  • Rickets (active) (acute) (adolescent) (adult) (chest wall) (congenital) (current) (infantile) (intestinal) 268.0
    • celiac 579.0
  • Sprue 579.1
    • celiac 579.0
    • idiopathic 579.0
    • nontropical 579.0
  • Steatorrhea (chronic) 579.8
    • idiopathic 579.0
      • adult 579.0
      • infantile 579.0
    • primary 579.0
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Gee-Herter-Heubner (nontropical sprue) 579.0
    • Herter (-Gee) (nontropical sprue) 579.0
    • Heubner-Herter (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Thaysen-Gee disease (nontropical sprue) 579.0
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