2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F98.9

Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

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  • F98.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
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  • The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM F98.9 became effective on October 1, 2022.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of F98.9 - other international versions of ICD-10 F98.9 may differ.
The following code(s) above F98.9 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
  • Applicable To annotations, or
  • Code Also annotations, or
  • Code First annotations, or
  • Excludes1 annotations, or
  • Excludes2 annotations, or
  • Includes annotations, or
  • Note annotations, or
  • Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to F98.9:
  • F01-F99
    2023 ICD-10-CM Range F01-F99

    Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders

    Includes
    • disorders of psychological development
    Type 2 Excludes
    • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
    Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • F90-F98
    2023 ICD-10-CM Range F90-F98

    Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

    Note
    • Codes within categories F90-F98 may be used regardless of the age of a patient. These disorders generally have onset within the childhood or adolescent years, but may continue throughout life or not be diagnosed until adulthood
    Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
  • F98
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F98

    Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

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    Type 2 Excludes
    • breath-holding spells (R06.89)
    • gender identity disorder of childhood (F64.2)
    • Kleine-Levin syndrome (G47.13)
    • obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42.-)
    • sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F51.-)
    Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Approximate Synonyms
  • Behavior disorder, disruptive
  • Behavioral and emotional disorder with onset in childhood
  • Communication disorder, nonorganic
  • Disruptive behavior disorder
  • Disruptive behaviour disorder
  • Emotional disturbance childhood or adolescence
  • Mental disorder of infancy, childhood or adolescence
  • Non-organic communication disorder
ICD-10-CM F98.9 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v40.0):
  • 886 Behavioral and developmental disorders

Convert F98.9 to ICD-9-CM

Code History
  • 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
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to F98.9:
  • Disorder (of) - see also Disease
    • mental (or behavioral) (nonpsychotic) F99
      ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F99

      Mental disorder, not otherwise specified

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      Applicable To
      • Mental illness NOS
      Type 1 Excludes
      • unspecified mental disorder due to known physiological condition (F09)
      • infancy, childhood or adolescence F98.9
  • Disturbance(s) - see also Disease
    • habit, child F98.9
  • Habit, habituation
    • disturbance, child F98.9

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To F98.9
F98 Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
F98.0 Enuresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition
F98.1 Encopresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition
F98.2 Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood
F98.21 Rumination disorder of infancy
F98.29 Other feeding disorders of infancy and early childhood
F98.3 Pica of infancy and childhood
F98.4 Stereotyped movement disorders
F98.5 Adult onset fluency disorder
F98.8 Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
F98.9 Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
F99 Mental disorder, not otherwise specified
G00 Bacterial meningitis, not elsewhere classified
G00.0 Hemophilus meningitis
G00.1 Pneumococcal meningitis
G00.2 Streptococcal meningitis
G00.3 Staphylococcal meningitis
G00.8 Other bacterial meningitis
G00.9 Bacterial meningitis, unspecified
G01 Meningitis in bacterial diseases classified elsewhere
G02 Meningitis in other infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere

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