Billable Medical Code for Failure to Thrive
Diagnosis Code for Reimbursement Claim: ICD-9-CM 783.41
Code will be replaced by October 2015 and relabeled as ICD-10-CM 783.41.
The Short Description Is: Failure to thrive-child.
Known As
Failure to thrive is also known as childhood failure to gain weight, failure to gain weight child, failure to thrive syndrome child, and pediatric failure to thrive. This excludes failure to thrive in newborn (779.34). This applies to failure to gain weight.
Failure To Thrive Definition and Symptoms
Failure to thrive is a term defining a set of symptoms in children where they are not growing and developing at a normal pace. Symptoms include delay in physical skills such as rolling over, crawling, or walking, failure to gain weight, and social or mental delays.