R68.1Nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy

R68.1 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy. It belongs to category R68 (other general symptoms and signs), block R50-R69 (general symptoms and signs) and chapter 18 (symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within R68 (other general symptoms and signs), R68.1 is specifically for nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy. Related codes cover hypothermia, not associated with low environmental temperature (R68.0), dry mouth, unspecified (R68.2), Clubbing of fingers (R68.3) and other general symptoms and signs (R68.8).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: R68.11 ((baby)), R68.12 ((baby)), R68.13 ((ALTE)) and R68.19 (infancy).

Don't report R68.1 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: colic, infantile (R10.83), neonatal cerebral irritability (P91.3) and teething syndrome (K00.7).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.