F33.42 — Major depressive disorder, recurrent, in full remission
F33.42 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for major depressive disorder, recurrent, in full remission. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
F33.42 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
F33.42 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies — 13 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 2 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
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
- A56818Billing and Coding: Urine Drug Testing
How F33.42 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 F33.42.
- Disorder›depressive›recurrent›in remission›full
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F33.4. If F33.42 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about F33.42
- Is F33.42 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F33.42 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F33.42 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Mood [affective] disorders (F30-F39).