ICD-9 | Codes and description for malnutrition (N=801 272) | Percent* |
263.9 | Unspecified protein-calorie malnutrition | 74.76 |
263.0 | Moderate malnutrition | 14.56 |
262 | Other severe, protein-calorie malnutrition | 9.68 |
263.1 | Mild malnutrition | 8.24 |
261 | Nutritional marasmus | 8.04 |
263.8 | Other protein-calorie malnutrition | 5.58 |
260 | Kwashiorkor | 4.27 |
783.22 | Underweight | 2.95 |
263.2 | Arrested development following protein-calorie malnutrition | 0.50 |
263 | Other unspecified protein-energy malnutrition | 0.07 |
*Beneficiaries could have one or more ICD-9 codes. The transition to ICD-10 codes was in 2015 and thus was not used in this analysis.
ICD-9, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision.