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R68.12

R68.12: Fussy infant (baby)

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R68.12 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for fussy infant (baby). It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Irritable infant

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R68.12

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)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Fussy baby
  • Infant›irritable child
  • Irritable, irritability›infant

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under R68.1

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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