269.8 NUTRITION DEFICIENCY NEC


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 269.8

Short Description: Nutrition deficiency NEC

Long Description: Other nutritional deficiency

Code Classification:

  • Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders (240–279)
    • Nutritional deficiencies (260-269)
      • 269 Other nutritional deficiencies
        • 269.8 Nutrition deficiency NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


Synonyms

  • Carnitine nutritional deficiency
  • Decreased nutritional requirement
  • Deficiency of macronutrients
  • Deficiency of micronutrients
  • Dietary potassium - low
  • Dietary sodium - low
  • Dilated cardiomyopathy due to taurine deficiency
  • Hereditary vitamin D dependency syndrome, type I
  • Imbalance of constituents of food intake
  • Inadequate dietary carbohydrate intake
  • Inadequate dietary intake of fat
  • Inadequate dietary intake of potassium
  • Inadequate dietary mineral intake
  • Inadequate dietary vitamin intake
  • Mild hereditary spherocytosis due to spectrin deficiency
  • Nutrition deficiency due to a particular kind of food
  • Nutrition deficiency due to insufficient food
  • Nutritional deficiency associated condition

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 269.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • nutrition, nutritional 269.9
      • specified NEC 269.8
    • specified NEC 269.8
  • Deprivation
    • food 994.2
      • specific substance NEC 269.8
  • Food
    • deprivation 994.2
      • specified kind of food NEC 269.8
  • Polyneuropathy (peripheral) 356.9
    • nutritional 269.9 [357.4]
      • specified NEC 269.8 [357.4]

Crosswalk Information

The code 269.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
269.8 Right Arrow E63.8 Other specified nutritional deficiencies
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 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-9 Code ICD-9 Description
269.0 Deficiency of vitamin K
269.1 Deficiency of other vitamins
269.2 Unspecified vitamin deficiency
269.3 Mineral deficiency, not elsewhere classified
269.9 Unspecified nutritional deficiency


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014