Diagnosis Code

R62.7 ADULT FAILURE TO THRIVE


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R62.7

Short Description: Adult failure to thrive

Long Description: Adult failure to thrive

The code R62.7 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
    • General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
      • Lack of expected normal physiol dev in childhood and adults (R62)
        • R62.7 Adult failure to thrive

This code is valid for adult diagnoses

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Adult failure to thrive syndrome
  • Body weight AND/OR growth problem
  • Failure to gain weight
  • Failure to thrive
  • Failure to thrive
  • 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

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R62.7 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes With Mcc (640)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes Without Mcc (641)

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
R62.7 Right Arrow 783.7 Failure to thrive-adult

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
R62 Lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood and adults
R62.0 Delayed milestone in childhood
R62.5 Other and unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood
R62.50 Unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood
R62.51 Failure to thrive (child)
R62.52 Short stature (child)
R62.59 Other lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023