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F42.8

F42.8: Other obsessive-compulsive disorder

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

F42.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Anancastic neurosis
  • Obsessive-compulsive neurosis

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above F42.8

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on F42: Obsessive-compulsive disorder

  • obsessive-compulsive personality (disorder) (F60.5)
  • obsessive-compulsive symptoms occurring in depression (F32.-, F33.-)
  • obsessive-compulsive symptoms occurring in schizophrenia (F20.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with F42.8

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • R46.81Obsessive-compulsive behavior

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

F42.8 is named in 17 Medicare coverage policies: 15 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 2 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

  • A52434Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention – Medical Policy Articlenot covered
  • A56865Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalizationnot covered
  • A56614Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization
  • A56756Billing and Coding: Home Health - Psychiatric Care

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Obsession, obsessional state
  • Obsessive-compulsive neurosis or reaction
  • Swearing, compulsive
  • Compulsion, compulsive›neurosis
  • Compulsion, compulsive›states
  • Compulsion, compulsive›swearing
  • Neurosis, neurotic›anankastic
  • Neurosis, neurotic›compulsive, compulsion
  • Neurosis, neurotic›obsessional
  • Neurosis, neurotic›obsessive-compulsive
  • Reaction›compulsive
  • Reaction›obsessive-compulsive

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under F42

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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