R68.11

R68.11: Excessive crying of infant (baby)

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R68.11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for excessive crying of infant (baby). It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check R68.11 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

excessive crying of child, adolescent, or adult (R45.83)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R68.11

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R68.1: Nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy

colic, infantile (R10.83)
neonatal cerebral irritability (P91.3)
teething syndrome (K00.7)

Other codes that can never be billed with R68.11

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

R45.83Excessive crying of child, adolescent or adult

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

R68.11 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Baby›crying constantly
Crying›infant(baby) (newborn)
Infant›excessive crying
Excess, excessive, excessively›crying›in infant

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.