Diagnosis Code: 269.9

Short Description: Nutrition deficiency NOS

Long Description: Unspecified nutritional deficiency

Code Classification:

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

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 269.9 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Cardiomyopathy (congestive) (constrictive) (familial) (infiltrative) (obstructive) (restrictive) (sporadic) 425.4
  • nutritional 269.9 [425.7]
    • beriberi 265.0 [425.7]

• Debility (general) (infantile) (postinfectional) 799.3
  • with nutritional difficulty 269.9

• Deficiency, deficient
  • diet 269.9
  • disease NEC 269.9
  • nutrition, nutritional 269.9
    • specified NEC 269.8

• Dietary
  • inadequacy or deficiency 269.9

• Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • deficiency 269.9
  • nutritional 269.9
    • maternal, affecting fetus or newborn 760.4

• Disturbance - see also Disease
  • nutritional 269.9
    • nail 703.8

• Dropsy, dropsical (see also Edema) 782.3
  • nutritional 269.9

• Error
  • in diet 269.9

• Gastritis 535.5
  • due to diet deficiency 269.9 [535.4]

• Inadequate, inadequacy
  • dietary 269.9

• Insufficiency, insufficient
  • dietary 269.9

• Myocardiopathy (congestive) (constrictive) (familial) (idiopathic) (infiltrative) (obstructive) (primary) (restrictive) (sporadic) 425.4
  • nutritional 269.9 [425.7]

• Nutrition, deficient or insufficient (particular kind of food) 269.9
  • due to
    • insufficient food 994.2
    • lack of
      • care (child) (infant) 995.52
        • adult 995.84
      • food 994.2

• Polyneuritis, polyneuritic (see also Polyneuropathy) 356.9
  • nutritional 269.9 [357.4]

• Polyneuropathy (peripheral) 356.9
  • nutritional 269.9 [357.4]
    • specified NEC 269.8 [357.4]

• Undernourishment 269.9

• Undernutrition 269.9

Crosswalk Information

The code 269.9 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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