R63.30 - Feeding difficulties, unspecified
| ICD-10: | R63.30 |
| Short Description: | Feeding difficulties, unspecified |
| Long Description: | Feeding difficulties, unspecified |
| Status: | Valid for Submission |
| Version: | ICD-10-CM 2023 |
| Code Classification: |
R63.30 is a billable ICD-10 code used to specify a medical diagnosis of feeding difficulties, unspecified. The code is valid during the fiscal year 2023 from October 01, 2022 through September 30, 2023 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
Unspecified diagnosis codes like R63.30 are acceptable when clinical information is unknown or not available about a particular condition. Although a more specific code is preferable, unspecified codes should be used when such codes most accurately reflect what is known about a patient's condition. Specific diagnosis codes should not be used if not supported by the patient's medical record.
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:
- Dependent for feeding
- Difficult to establish feeding
- Difficulty eating
- Difficulty eating
- Difficulty eating certain foods
- Difficulty eating due to breathlessness
- Difficulty feeding self
- Does not feed self
- Feeding assisted
- Feeding difficulties and mismanagement
- Feeding disability
- Feeding poor
- Feeding problem symptom
- Finding of feeding pattern
- Finding related to ability to eat certain food
- Finding related to ability to feed self
- Finding related to ability to feed self
- Finding related to ability to feed self
- Intellectual disability, feeding difficulties, developmental delay, microcephaly syndrome
- Needs help with feeding
- Refusing food
- Severe feeding difficulties, failure to thrive, microcephaly due to ASXL3 deficiency syndrome
- Severe neurodevelopmental disorder with feeding difficulties, stereotypic hand movement, bilateral cataract
- Unable to eat
- Unable to feed self
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:
- - Difficult, difficulty (in)
- - feeding - R63.30
- - Disorder (of) - See Also: Disease;
- - feeding (infant or child) - See Also: Disorder, eating; - R63.30
- - Feeding
- - difficulties - R63.30
Replacement Code
R6330 replaces the following previously assigned ICD-10 code(s):
- R63.3 - Feeding difficulties
Code History
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - Code Added, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
