F44
F44: Dissociative and conversion disorders
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
F44 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for dissociative and conversion 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.
- malingering [conscious simulation] (Z76.5)
Includes
Conditions this code covers.
- conversion hysteria
- conversion reaction
- hysteria
- hysterical psychosis
Other codes that can never be billed with F44
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- F04Amnestic disorder due to known physiological condition
- F44.0Dissociative amnesia
- G24.3Spasmodic torticollis
- G40Epilepsy and recurrent seizures
- G82Paraplegia (paraparesis) and quadriplegia (quadriparesis)
- H90.5Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss
- H91Other and unspecified hearing loss
- R20Disturbances of skin sensation
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 F44
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- F44.0Dissociative amnesia
- F44.1Dissociative fugue
- F44.2Dissociative stupor
- F44.4Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit
- F44.5Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions
- F44.6Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit
- F44.7Conversion disorder with mixed symptom presentation
- F44.8Other dissociative and conversion disorders
- F44.9Dissociative and conversion disorder, unspecified