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2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 536.8
Dyspepsia and other specified disorders of function of stomach
- 2015
- Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
- Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015
- ICD-9-CM 536.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 536.8 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM:
536.8 converts directly to:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM K30 Functional dyspepsia
Approximate Synonyms
- Abnormal gastric acidity
- Achylia gastrica
- Chronic regurgitation
- Diminished gastrin secretion
- Drug-induced dyspepsia
- Dyspepsia
- Dyspepsia (indigestion)
- Dyspepsia (indigestion), not from ulcer
- Erythematous gastropathy
- Excessive gastric inhibitory peptide secretion
- Flatulent dyspepsia
- Friable mucosa of digestive system organ
- Gastric motor function disorder
- Gastric retention
- Gastric spasm
- Gastrointestinal hypomotility
- Granular mucosa of digestive organ structure
- Hyperchlorhydria
- Hypochlorhydria
- Increased gastric HCO>3<^-^ secretion
- Increased gastric motility
- Indigestion
- Inhibition of gastric motility
- Mild dietary indigestion
- Minimal gastric reflux
- Moderate gastric reflux
- Non ulcer dyspepsia
- Nonulcer dyspepsia
- Non-ulcer dyspepsia
- Peptic ulcer symptoms
- Postoperative gastric retention
- Primary chronic pseudo-obstruction of stomach
- Rapid gastric emptying
- Retained antrum syndrome
- Upset stomach
- Vagus indigestion
Clinical Information
- (a-klor-hy-dree-a) a lack of hydrochloric acid in the digestive juices in the stomach. Hydrochloric acid helps digest food
- Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice
- Lack of hydrochloric acid in gastric juice despite stimulation of gastric secretion
- Upset stomach
536.8 Excludes
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Applies To
- Achylia gastrica
- Hourglass contraction of stomach
- Hyperacidity
- Hyperchlorhydria
- Hypochlorhydria
- Indigestion
- Tachygastria
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to
536.8:
- Achylia
gastrica 536.8
- Achylosis 536.8
- Acid
peptic disease 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Acidity, gastric (high) (low) 536.8
- Apepsia 536.8
- Bilocular
stomach 536.8
- Colic (recurrent) 789.7
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gastric 536.8
- Contraction, contracture, contracted
hourglass![](/images/vertical.gif)
bladder 596.89![](/images/note.png)
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gallbladder (see also Obstruction, gallbladder) 575.2![](/images/note.png)
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stomach 536.8![](/images/vertical.gif)
uterus 661.4![](/images/note.png)
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affecting fetus or newborn 763.7![](/images/note.png)
stomach 536.8![](/images/16x16.gif)
hourglass 536.8![](/images/16x16.gif)
psychogenic 306.4![](/images/note.png)
- Delay, delayed
gastric emptying 536.8
- Diarrhea, diarrheal (acute) (autumn) (bilious) (bloody) (catarrhal) (choleraic) (chronic) (gravis) (green) (infantile) (lienteric) (noninfectious) (presumed noninfectious) (putrefactive) (secondary) (sporadic) (summer) (symptomatic) (thermic) 787.91
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achylia gastrica 536.8![](/images/16x16.gif)
Aerobacter aerogenes 008.2![](/images/note.png)
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Bacillus coli - see Enteritis, E. coli![](/images/16x16.gif)
bacteria NEC 008.5![](/images/note.png)
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bile salts 579.8![](/images/note.png)
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Capillaria![](/images/16x16.gif)
Clostridium perfringens (C) (F) 008.46![](/images/note.png)
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Enterobacter aerogenes 008.2![](/images/note.png)
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enterococci 008.49![](/images/note.png)
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Escherichia coli - see Enteritis, E. coli![](/images/16x16.gif)
Giardia lamblia 007.1![](/images/note.png)
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Heterophyes heterophyes 121.6![](/images/note.png)
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irritating foods 787.91![](/images/note.png)
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Metagonimus yokogawai 121.5![](/images/note.png)
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Necator americanus 126.1![](/images/note.png)
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Paracolobactrum arizonae 008.1![](/images/note.png)
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Paracolon bacillus NEC 008.47![](/images/note.png)
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Proteus (bacillus) (mirabilis) (Morganii) 008.3![](/images/note.png)
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa 008.42![](/images/note.png)
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S. japonicum 120.2![](/images/note.png)
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specified organism NEC 008.8![](/images/note.png)
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Staphylococcus 008.41![](/images/note.png)
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Streptococcus 008.49![](/images/note.png)
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Strongyloides stercoralis 127.2![](/images/note.png)
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Trichuris trichiuria 127.3![](/images/note.png)
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virus NEC (see also Enteritis, viral) 008.69![](/images/note.png)
- Dilatation
gastric 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
acid-peptic 536.8
peptic NEC 536.9![](/images/note.png)
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acid 536.8
Reichmann's (gastrosuccorrhea) 536.8
Rossbach's (hyperchlorhydria) 536.8
- Disorder - see also Disease
gastric (functional) 536.9![](/images/note.png)
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motility 536.8![](/images/16x16.gif)
psychogenic 306.4![](/images/note.png)
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secretion 536.8
- Distention
stomach 536.8
- Disturbance - see also Disease
gastric (functional) 536.9![](/images/note.png)
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motility 536.8![](/images/16x16.gif)
psychogenic 306.4![](/images/note.png)
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secretion 536.8
- Dumping syndrome (postgastrectomy) 564.2
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nonsurgical 536.8
- Dyspepsia (allergic) (congenital) (fermentative) (flatulent) (functional) (gastric) (gastrointestinal) (neurogenic) (occupational) (reflex) 536.8
acid 536.8
- Engorgement
stomach 536.8
- Enteritis (acute) (catarrhal) (choleraic) (chronic) (congestive) (diarrheal) (exudative) (follicular) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (lienteric) (noninfectious) (perforative) (phlegmonous) (presumed noninfectious) (pseudomembranous) 558.9
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due to
- Fermentation (gastric) (gastrointestinal) (stomach) 536.8
- Gastralgia 536.8
- Gastritis 535.5
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spastic 536.8
- Gastrodynia 536.8
- Gastrorrhea 536.8
- Gastrospasm (neurogenic) (reflex) 536.8
- Gastrosuccorrhea (continuous) (intermittent) 536.8
- Hourglass contraction, contracture
stomach 536.8
- Hyperacidity, gastric 536.8
- Hyperactive, hyperactivity 314.01
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gastrointestinal 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Hyperchlorhydria 536.8
- Hyperchylia gastrica 536.8
- Hypermobility
stomach 536.8
- Hypermotility
gastrointestinal 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Hypersecretion
gastric 536.8
- Hypersensitive, hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity - see also Allergy
stomach (allergic) (nonallergic) 536.8
- Hypertonicity
gastrointestinal (tract) 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Hypoacidity, gastric 536.8
- Hypochlorhydria 536.8
- Hypomotility
gastrointestinal tract 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Indigestion (bilious) (functional) 536.8
acid 536.8
catarrhal 536.8
due to decomposed food NEC 005.9![](/images/note.png)
- Inertia
stomach 536.8
- Malfunction - see also Dysfunction
gastroenteric 536.8
- Myasthenia 358.00
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stomach 536.8
- Pain(s) (see also Painful) 780.96
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gastric 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Peptic acid disease 536.8
- Reichmann's disease or syndrome (gastrosuccorrhea) 536.8
- Retention, retained
gastric 536.8
- Rossbach's disease (hyperchlorhydria) 536.8
- Spasm, spastic, spasticity (see also condition) 781.0
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gastrointestinal (tract) 536.8
stomach 536.8
- Stasis
duodenal 536.8
- Subacidity, gastric 536.8
- Syndrome - see also Disease
dumping 564.2![](/images/note.png)
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nonsurgical 536.8
Reichmann's (gastrosuccorrhea) 536.8
- Tachygastria 536.8
- Upset
gastric 536.8
gastrointestinal 536.8![](/images/vertical.gif)
psychogenic 306.4![](/images/note.png)
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virus (see also Enteritis, viral) 008.8![](/images/note.png)
stomach 536.8
- Vomiting 787.03
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functional 536.8