R06.89
R06.89: Other abnormalities of breathing
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
R06.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other abnormalities of breathing. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check R06.89 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Breath-holding (spells)
- Sighing
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R06.89
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with R06.89
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- R09.2Respiratory arrest
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
R06.89 is named in 26 Medicare coverage policies: 26 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A53026Billing and Coding: Bariatric Surgery Coverage
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
- A56476Billing and Coding: Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging
- A56505Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Bradypnea
- Hypercapnia
- Hypoventilation
- Narcosis
- Sighing
- Yawning
- Breath›holder, child
- Breath›holding spell
- Insufficiency, insufficient›respiratory
- Irregular, irregularity›breathing
- Irregular, irregularity›respiratory
- Respiration›insufficient, or poor
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.