2021 ICD-10-CM Code R63.2
Polyphagia
Valid for Submission
R63.2 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of polyphagia. The code R63.2 is valid during the fiscal year 2021 from October 01, 2020 through September 30, 2021 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
The ICD-10-CM code R63.2 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like alteration in nutrition, alteration in nutrition: more than body requirements, disorder of hyperalimentation, excessive appetite, excessive bioactive substance intake , excessive eating - polyphagia, etc.
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.
Code Classification
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code R63.2:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Excessive eating
- Hyperalimentation NOS
Index to Diseases and Injuries
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 the code R63.2 are found in the index:
- - Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities - See Also: Anomaly;
- - increase in appetite - R63.2
- - Cynorexia - R63.2
- - Excess, excessive, excessively
- - eating - R63.2
- - nutrient (dietary) NEC - R63.2
- - Hyperalimentation - R63.2
- - Hyperphagia - R63.2
- - Overeating - R63.2
- - Polyphagia - R63.2
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Alteration in nutrition
- Alteration in nutrition: more than body requirements
- Disorder of hyperalimentation
- Excessive appetite
- Excessive bioactive substance intake
- Excessive eating - polyphagia
- Excessive enteral nutrition infusion
- Excessive intake from enteral nutrition
- Excessive oral intake
- Finding of quantity of appetite
- Finding of quantity of appetite
- Finding of quantity of eating
- Finding of quantity of eating
- Greediness
- Hyperthermia-hyperphagia-hypothyroidism syndrome
- Increased appetite
- Neurological disorder due to excess intake of macronutrients
- Neurological disorder due to excess intake of micronutrients
- Occasional overeating
- Overeating
- Polyphagia symptom
Clinical Information
- HYPERPHAGIA-. ingestion of a greater than optimal quantity of food.
Diagnostic Related Groups - MS-DRG Mapping
The ICD-10 code R63.2 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V38.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2020 through 09/30/2021.
Convert R63.2 to ICD-9 Code
- 783.6 - Polyphagia
Code History
- 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)