DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

R54 diagnosis code · Billable category · FY2027

R54 Age-related physical debility

  • Billable
  • Not CC/MCC
  • POA reported

R54 ICD-10 code: a billable diagnosis code in FY2027; the category has no subdivisions.

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 18 Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  2. R50-R69 General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
  3. R54 Age-related physical debility
CC / MCC
Neither
MS-DRG
884
HCC V28
–
POA
Reported
Code Editor
Adult
Index entries
32

Instructions

At R54

Inclusion terms

  • Frailty
  • Old age
  • Senescence
  • Senile asthenia
  • Senile debility

Excludes1

  • age-related cognitive decline (R41.81) R41.81
  • sarcopenia (M62.84) M62.84
  • senile psychosis (F03.-) F03
  • senility NOS (R41.81) R41.81

Notes that also apply

Chapter 18 instructions (Notes 9, Excludes2 4): printed on the chapter 18 page.

Index entries

  • Catabolism, senile → R54
  • Frailty (frail) → R54
  • Old age (without mention of debility) → R54
  • Presbycardia → R54
  • Senectus → R54
  • Senescence (without mention of psychosis) → R54
  • Asthenia, asthenicsenile → R54
  • Atrophiasenilis → R54
  • Atrophy, atrophic (of)old age → R54
  • Atrophy, atrophic (of)senile → R54
  • Cachexiaold age → R54
  • Cachexiasenile → R54
  • Change(s) (in) (of)senile → R54
  • Debility (chronic) (general) (nervous)old age → R54
  • Debility (chronic) (general) (nervous)senile → R54
  • Decaysenile → R54
  • Degeneration, degenerativesenile → R54
  • Deteriorationsenile (simple) → R54
  • Dysfunctionsenile → R54
  • Exhaustion, exhaustive (physical NEC)old age → R54
  • Exhaustion, exhaustive (physical NEC)senile → R54
  • Failure, failedsenile (general) → R54
  • Fatiguesenile → R54
  • Fibrosis, fibroticsenile → R54
  • Infirmitysenile → R54
  • Marasmussenile → R54
  • Prostrationsenile → R54
  • Senile, senilityasthenia → R54
  • Senile, senilitydebility → R54
  • Senile, senilityheart (failure) → R54
  • Tremor(s)senilis → R54
  • Weak, weakening, weakness (generalized)senile → R54

NCHS Alphabetic Index. Index first, then the Tabular List.

Medicare grouping and edits

CMS files for R54
CC / MCCNeither
Appendix BMDC 19 Mental Diseases and Disorders, MS-DRG 884 (Organic Disturbances and Intellectual Disability…)
Code EditorAge conflict: adult diagnosis (age 15–124)
POAReported
HCC V28–

CMS: MS-DRG v44 (Appendix B, C), MCE v44, POA list FY2027, 2027 Initial ICD-10-CM Mappings. What the rows mean.

Hierarchy