ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R00-R09 › R06.8 Other abnormalities of breathing › R06.89
Other abnormalities of breathing
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Other abnormalities of breathing
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from R06 Abnormalities of breathing
Excludes1 - never coded here
- 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)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Sighing
- Yawning
- Narcosis
- Bradypnea
- Hypercapnia
- Hypoventilation
- Breath > holder, child
- Breath > holding spell
- Irregular, irregularity > breathing
- Respiration > insufficient, or poor
- Irregular, irregularity > respiratory
- Insufficiency, insufficient > respiratory
- Inadequate, inadequacy > pulmonary > function
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R06.81 | Apnea, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| R06.82 | Tachypnea, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| R06.83 | Snoring | Valid |