F23: Brief psychotic disorder
F23 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for brief psychotic disorder. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check F23 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Paranoid reaction
- Psychogenic paranoid psychosis
Other codes that can never be billed with F23
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
F23 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to these categories:
- HCC 152 Psychosis, Except Schizophrenia0.484 RAF
- HCC 152 Psychosis, Except Schizophrenia0.484 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.
Medicare coverage
F23 is named in 18 Medicare coverage policies: 17 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52434Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention – Medical Policy Articlenot covered
- A56614Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
- A56685Billing and Coding: Partial Hospitalization Programs
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Bouffée délirante
- Oneirophrenia
- Attack, attacks›schizophreniform, brief
- Episode›psychotic
- Episode›schizophrenic NEC, brief(acute)
- Paranoid›reaction(acute)
- Psychosis, psychotic›acute(transient)
- Psychosis, psychotic›cycloid
- Psychosis, psychotic›episode
- Psychosis, psychotic›psychogenic(paranoid)
- Psychosis, psychotic›reactive(brief) (transient) (emotional stress) (psychological trauma)
- Psychosis, psychotic›situational(reactive)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.