R62.7 - Adult failure to thrive
| ICD-10: | R62.7 |
| Short Description: | Adult failure to thrive |
| Long Description: | Adult failure to thrive |
| Status: | Valid for Submission |
| Version: | ICD-10-CM 2023 |
| Code Classification: |
R62.7 is a billable ICD-10 code used to specify a medical diagnosis of adult failure to thrive. The code is valid during the fiscal year 2023 from October 01, 2022 through September 30, 2023 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
The code R62.7 is applicable to adult patients aged 15 through 124 years inclusive. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a patient outside the stated age range.
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:
- Adult failure to thrive syndrome
- Body weight AND/OR growth problem
- Failure to gain weight
- Failure to thrive
- Failure to thrive
- Impaired renal function disorder
- Impairment of adult development
- Impairment of older adult development
- Organic failure to thrive
- Problem of growth and development
- Renal function impairment with growth failure
- Severe feeding difficulties, failure to thrive, microcephaly due to ASXL3 deficiency syndrome
Clinical Information
- Failure to Thrive-. a condition of substandard growth or diminished capacity to maintain normal function.
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index:
- - Failure, failed
- - gain weight (child over 28 days old) - R62.51
- - adult - R62.7
- - to thrive (child over 28 days old) - R62.51
- - adult - R62.7
- - gain weight (child over 28 days old) - R62.51
- - Lack of
- - development (physiological) - R62.50
- - failure to thrive (child over 28 days old) - R62.51
- - adult - R62.7
- - failure to thrive (child over 28 days old) - R62.51
- - development (physiological) - R62.50
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Adult diagnoses - The Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies in adult cases by checking a patient's age and any diagnosis on the patient's record. The adult code edits apply to patients age range is 15–124 years inclusive (e.g., senile delirium, mature cataract).
Convert to ICD-9 Code
| Source ICD-10 Code | Target ICD-9 Code | |
|---|---|---|
| R62.7 | 783.7 - Failure to thrive-adult |
Code History
- 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 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
