1. ICD-10-CM Codes
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2. F01-F99 Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders
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3. F40-F48 Anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders
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4. F40- Phobic anxiety disorders
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2020 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F40.10

Social phobia, unspecified

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Billable/Specific Code

• F40.10 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
• The 2020 edition of ICD-10-CM F40.10 became effective on October 1, 2019.
• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of F40.10 - other international versions of ICD-10 F40.10 may differ.

• Avoidance disorder
• Avoidance disorder, childhood
• Avoidant disorder of childhood
• Fear of eating in public
• Performance anxiety
• Phobia, social
• Shyness disorder of childhood
• Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)
• Social anxiety disorder (social phobia), performance only
• Social phobia
• Specific phobia, eating in public

• An anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, irrational fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the individual believes that he or she will be scrutinized by others. Exposure to social situations immediately provokes an anxiety response. In adults, the social phobia is recognized as excessive or unreasonable.
• Extreme apprehension or fear of social interaction or social situations in general. Compare social anxiety.

• 882 Neuroses except depressive

Convert F40.10 to ICD-9-CM

• 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
• 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
• 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
• 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
• 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change

• Anthropophobia F40.10
• Disorder (of) - see also Disease
  • avoidant
    • child or adolescent F40.10
  • social
    • anxiety (of childhood) F40.10
  • shyness, of childhood and adolescence F40.10
  • withdrawing, child or adolescent F40.10
• Disturbance(s) - see also Disease
  • emotions specific to childhood and adolescence F93.9
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F93.9

    Childhood emotional disorder, unspecified

    2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Billable/Specific Code
    • with
      • sensitivity F40.10 (withdrawal)
      • shyness F40.10
      • social withdrawal F40.10
• Neurosis, neurotic F48.9
  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F48.9

  Nonpsychotic mental disorder, unspecified

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Billable/Specific Code

  Applicable To

  • Neurosis NOS
  • social F40.10
• Phobia, phobic F40.9
  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F40.9

  Phobic anxiety disorder, unspecified

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Billable/Specific Code

  Applicable To

  • Phobia NOS
  • Phobic state NOS
  • social F40.10
• Xenophobia F40.10

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.