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ICD-10/R63.30

R63.30 ICD-10-CM Code: Feeding difficulties, unspecified

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, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 640 — MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC (MDC 10)
  • MS-DRG 641 — MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC (MDC 10)

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.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Feeding difficulties, unspecified is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (R63.30).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for R63.30 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Change history

  • FY2022 — 2021-10-01
    Added to the code set
    Feeding difficulties, unspecified
    FY2022 changes

Verify Before Coding

  • Billable — reportable as written.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim.

Contextual Map

Every relationship of R63.30 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Hierarchy

  • R63.3 — Feeding difficulties [Hierarchy]

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

  • F50 — Eating disorders [Excludes2](via R63.3.-): “feeding difficulties (R63.3-)”
  • F98.2 — Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood [Excludes2](via R63.3.-): “feeding difficulties (R63.3-)”
  • P92 — Feeding problems of newborn [Excludes2](via R63.3.-): “feeding problems in child over 28 days old (R63.3-)”

Clinical classification (CCSR)

  • SYM016 — Other general signs and symptoms [CCSR]

Potential MS-DRG

  • DRG 640 — MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC [MS-DRG]: “MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC (MDC 10)”
  • DRG 641 — MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC [MS-DRG]: “MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC (MDC 10)”

Index entries

  • Difficult, difficulty (in),… — Difficult, difficulty (in), feeding [Index term]
  • Disorder (of), feeding (inf… — Disorder (of), feeding (infant or child) [Index term]
  • Feeding, difficulties[Index term]

Nearest codes (12)

  • R63 — Symptoms and signs concerning food and fluid intake [Sibling]
  • R63.0 — Anorexia [Sibling]
  • R63.1 — Polydipsia [Sibling]
  • R63.2 — Polyphagia [Sibling]
  • R63.3 — Feeding difficulties [Sibling]
  • R63.31 — Pediatric feeding disorder, acute [Sibling]
  • R63.32 — Pediatric feeding disorder, chronic [Sibling]
  • R63.39 — Other feeding difficulties [Sibling]
  • and 4 more

Change history

  • FY2022 — Added to the code set [Change history]

Referenced by Other Codes

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):SYM016 — Other general signs and symptoms (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Potential MS-DRG Relationships (FY2026)

Not on the CMS CC/MCC list — as a secondary diagnosis this code does not change MS-DRG severity.

Named in the grouper logic of 2 MS-DRGs: DRG 640 (MDC 10), DRG 641 (MDC 10).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Official ICD-10-CM tabular notes on other codes that name R63.30 or its code family.

3 Excludes2 notes across 2 chapters: F50 (via R63.3.-), F98.2 (via R63.3.-), P92 (via R63.3.-).

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to R63.30 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • R63 — Symptoms and signs concerning food and fluid intake
  • R63.0 — Anorexia
  • R63.1 — Polydipsia
  • R63.2 — Polyphagia
  • R63.3 — Feeding difficulties
  • R63.31 — Pediatric feeding disorder, acute
  • R63.32 — Pediatric feeding disorder, chronic
  • R63.39 — Other feeding difficulties
  • R63.4 — Abnormal weight loss
  • R63.5 — Abnormal weight gain

View all codes in the R63 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (3)

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

  • Difficult, difficulty (in), feeding
  • Disorder (of), feeding (infant or child)
  • Feeding, difficulties