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R62.51

Failure to thrive (child)

Billable

Code Hierarchy

R62R62.5R62.51

Chapter: 18. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Section: R50-R69 - General symptoms and signs

Coding Guidelines

Inclusion Terms

  • Failure to gain weight
  • Faltering growth

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with R62.51

  • P92.6 - failure to thrive in child under 28 days old (P92.6)

Related Codes

R62.50Billable

Unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood

R62.52Billable

Short stature (child)

R62.59Billable

Other lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood

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