F10.120 — Alcohol abuse with intoxication, uncomplicated
F10.120 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for alcohol abuse with intoxication, uncomplicated. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above F10.120
These are not written on F10.120, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing F10.120 with anything listed here is a denial.
Risk adjustment
F10.120 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
F10.120 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies — 12 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 3 listing it as NOT covered. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52434Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention – Medical Policy Articlenot covered
- A56865Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalizationnot covered
- A59718Billing and Coding: Opioid Treatment Programsnot covered
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
How F10.120 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to F10.120.
- Alcohol, alcoholic, alcohol-induced›intoxication›uncomplicated
- Abuse›alcohol›with›intoxication›uncomplicated
Code history
F10.120 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F10.12. If F10.120 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about F10.120
- Is F10.120 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F10.120 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F10.120 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use (F10-F19).
- What cannot be coded together with F10.120?
- F10.120 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above F10.120 (F10.1) and apply to it just the same.