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R64

Cachexia

Billable

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

Section: R50-R69 - General symptoms and signs

Coding Guidelines

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with R64

R63.4 - abnormal weight loss (R63.4)
cachexia due to underlying condition (E88.A)
E41 - nutritional marasmus (E41)

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