F33.1 — Major depressive disorder, recurrent, moderate
F33.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for major depressive disorder, recurrent, moderate. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
F33.1 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 155 Major Depression, Moderate or Severe, without Psychosis0.299 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.
Medicare coverage
F33.1 is named in 35 Medicare coverage policies — 34 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 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
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
- A56685Billing and Coding: Partial Hospitalization Programs
- A56756Billing and Coding: Home Health - Psychiatric Care
How F33.1 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 F33.1.
- Disorder›depressive›recurrent›current episode›moderate
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F33. If F33.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- F33.0Major depressive disorder, recurrent, mild
- F33.2Major depressive disorder, recurrent severe without psychotic features
- F33.3Major depressive disorder, recurrent, severe with psychotic symptoms
- F33.4Major depressive disorder, recurrent, in remission
- F33.8Other recurrent depressive disorders
- F33.9Major depressive disorder, recurrent, unspecified
Questions about F33.1
- Is F33.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F33.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F33.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Mood [affective] disorders (F30-F39).