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ICD-10/R06.89

R06.89 ICD-10-CM Code: Other abnormalities of breathing

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 204 — RESPIRATORY SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS (MDC 04)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Other abnormalities of breathing is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (R06.89).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for R06.89 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Breath-holding (spells)
  • Sighing

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.

  • acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
  • respiratory arrest (R09.2)
  • respiratory arrest of newborn (P28.81)
  • respiratory distress syndrome of newborn (P22.-)
  • respiratory failure (J96.-)
  • respiratory failure of newborn (P28.5)

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to R06.89 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • R06.3 — Periodic breathing
  • R06.4 — Hyperventilation
  • R06.5 — Mouth breathing
  • R06.6 — Hiccough
  • R06.7 — Sneezing
  • R06.8 — Other abnormalities of breathing
  • R06.81 — Apnea, not elsewhere classified
  • R06.82 — Tachypnea, not elsewhere classified
  • R06.83 — Snoring
  • R06.9 — Unspecified abnormalities of breathing

View all codes in the R06 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (13)

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.

  • Bradypnea
  • Breath, holder, child
  • Breath, holding spell
  • Hypercapnia
  • Hypoventilation
  • Inadequate, inadequacy, pulmonary, function
  • Insufficiency, insufficient, respiratory
  • Irregular, irregularity, breathing
  • Irregular, irregularity, respiratory
  • Narcosis
  • Respiration, insufficient, or poor
  • Sighing
  • Yawning