F43.2
F43.2: Adjustment disorders
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
F43.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for adjustment disorders. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: 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.
- separation anxiety disorder of childhood (F93.0)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Culture shock
- Grief reaction
- Hospitalism in children
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead F43.2
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- F43.20Adjustment disorder, unspecified
- F43.21Adjustment disorder with depressed mood
- F43.22Adjustment disorder with anxiety
- F43.23Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
- F43.24Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct
- F43.25Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct
- F43.29Adjustment disorder with other symptoms