2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R63.8
Other symptoms and signs concerning food and fluid intake
- ICD-10-CM Code:
- R63.8
- ICD-10 Code for:
- Other symptoms and signs concerning food and fluid intake
- Is Billable?
- Yes - Valid for Submission
- Chronic Condition Indicator: [1]
- Not chronic
- Code Navigator:
R63.8 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other symptoms and signs concerning food and fluid intake. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.
According to ICD-10-CM guidelines this code should not to be used as a principal diagnosis code when a related definitive diagnosis has been established.
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Abnormal eating pattern
- Abnormal food appetite
- Adipsia
- Alteration in nutrition
- Alteration in nutrition
- Alteration in nutrition: less than body requirements
- Alteration in nutrition: less than body requirements
- Alteration in nutrition: more than body requirements
- Altered appetite
- Always eating
- Always hungry
- Appetite problem
- Aversion to food or drink
- Aversion to particular drink
- Aversion to particular food
- Cannot face food
- Carbohydrate craving
- Chaotic eating
- Chewing finding
- Comfort eating
- Craving for food or drink
- Craving for particular drink
- Craving for particular food
- Dependent for drinking
- Diet followed - finding
- Difficulty drinking
- Difficulty drinking from feeder cup
- Difficulty drinking using a straw
- Difficulty holding drinks
- Difficulty sipping drink
- Difficulty spitting
- Difficulty taking drink to mouth
- Does not chew
- Does not drink
- Does not drink from a bottle
- Does not drink from feeder cup
- Does not drink using a straw
- Does not eat
- Does not eat certain food
- Does not hold drinks
- Does not move food in mouth
- Does not retrieve food from buccal sulcus
- Does not sip drink
- Does not spit
- Does not take drink to mouth
- Drink intake - finding
- Eating frequently
- Eating problem
- Eats irregularly
- Excessive beta glucan intake
- Excessive bioactive substance intake
- Excessive bioactive substance intake
- Excessive bioactive substance intake
- Excessive caffeine intake
- Excessive chloride salt intake
- Excessive coffee drinker
- Excessive fluid intake
- Excessive intake of high intensity sweetener additive
- Excessive non-nutritive food additive intake
- Excessive sulfate salt intake
- Failure to lose weight
- Fasting
- Finding of feeding pattern
- Finding of fluid intake
- Finding of fluid intake
- Finding of fluid intake
- Finding of fluid intake
- Finding of fluid intake
- Finding of fluid intake
- Finding of fluid intake
- Finding of frequency of eating
- Finding of pattern of fluid intake
- Finding of pattern of fluid intake
- Finding of pattern of fluid intake
- Finding of pattern of fluid intake
- Finding of pattern of fluid intake
- Finding of quantity of appetite
- Finding of quantity of appetite
- Finding of quantity of eating
- Finding of regularity of eating
- Finding of regularity of eating
- Finding related to ability to chew
- Finding related to ability to drink from bottle
- Finding related to ability to drink from bottle
- Finding related to ability to drink from feeder cup
- Finding related to ability to drink from feeder cup
- Finding related to ability to drink from feeder cup
- Finding related to ability to drink using straw
- Finding related to ability to drink using straw
- Finding related to ability to drink using straw
- Finding related to ability to eat certain food
- Finding related to ability to eat certain food
- Finding related to ability to hold drinks
- Finding related to ability to hold drinks
- Finding related to ability to hold drinks
- Finding related to ability to retrieve food from buccal sulcus
- Finding related to ability to sip drink
- Finding related to ability to sip drink
- Finding related to ability to sip drink
- Finding related to ability to spit
- Finding related to ability to spit
- Finding related to ability to spit
- Finding related to ability to take drink to mouth
- Finding related to ability to take drink to mouth
- Finding related to ability to take drink to mouth
- Hungry
- Hypometabolism
- Improper feeding schedule for age
- Inadequate chloride salt intake
- Inadequate food diet
- Inadequate food diet
- Inadequate oral food intake for physiological needs
- Inadequate sulfate salt intake
- Increased appetite
- Increased fluid intake
- Insufficient fluid intake - finding
- Insufficient fluid intake - finding
- Insufficient intake of food and water with self neglect
- Intake of unsafe food
- Intentional weight loss
- Limited food acceptance
- Little thirst
- Morbid hunger
- Never thirsty
- Not taking fluids
- Not tolerating normal diet
- Not tolerating oral fluid
- Nutritional deficiency state
- Nutritional deficiency state
- Nutritional deficiency state
- On special diet
- Poor response to enteral nutrition
- Predicted excessive energy intake
- Predicted inadequate energy intake
- Preoccupation with food
- Problem with drinking fluid
- Reduced fluid intake
- Reduced fluid intake pre-bedtime
- Reduced thirst
- Refusal to eat in presence of others
- Refusing fluids
- Refusing food
- Refusing food
- Refusing food
- Refusing food
- Refusing lumpy foods
- Refusing solids
- Self-neglect
- Thirst finding
- Thirst finding
- Thirst finding
- Thirst finding
- Unable to drink
- Unable to drink from a bottle
- Unable to drink from a feeder cup
- Unable to drink using a straw
- Unable to eat
- Unable to eat certain food
- Unable to hold drinks
- Unable to sip drink
- Unable to spit
- Unable to take drink to mouth
Clinical Classification
Clinical Category is Other general signs and symptoms
- CCSR Category Code: SYM016
- Inpatient Default CCSR: Y - Yes, default inpatient assignment for principal diagnosis or first-listed diagnosis.
- Outpatient Default CCSR: Y - Yes, default outpatient assignment for principal diagnosis or first-listed diagnosis.
Clinical Information
Fasting
abstaining from food.Hypoglycemia
a syndrome of abnormally low blood glucose level. clinical hypoglycemia has diverse etiologies. severe hypoglycemia eventually lead to glucose deprivation of the central nervous system resulting in hunger; sweating; paresthesia; impaired mental function; seizures; coma; and even death.Intermittent Fasting
alternating between fasting for an extended period of time during the day and eating during a restricted time for the day.Food
substances taken in by the body to provide nourishment.
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).
- - Hypometabolism - R63.8
- - Increase, increased
- - abnormal, in development - R63.8
- - Symptoms NEC - R68.89
- - development NEC - R63.8
- - involving
- - food and fluid intake - R63.8
- - metabolism NEC - R63.8
Convert R63.8 to ICD-9-CM
- ICD-9-CM Code: 783.9 - Nutr/metab/devel sym NEC
Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.
Code History
- FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.
Footnotes
[1] Not chronic - A diagnosis code that does not fit the criteria for chronic condition (duration, ongoing medical treatment, and limitations) is considered not chronic. Some codes designated as not chronic are acute conditions. Other diagnosis codes that indicate a possible chronic condition, but for which the duration of the illness is not specified in the code description (i.e., we do not know the condition has lasted 12 months or longer) also are considered not chronic.