F44.5
F44.5: Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
F44.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check F44.5 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Conversion disorder with attacks or seizures
- Dissociative convulsions
Other codes that can never be billed with F44.5
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
F44.5 is named in 18 Medicare coverage policies: 17 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52434Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention – Medical Policy Articlenot covered
- A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
- A56756Billing and Coding: Home Health - Psychiatric Care
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Hysteroepilepsy
- Autonomic, autonomous›hysteria seizure
- Convulsions›dissociative
- Convulsions›hysterical
- Fit›hysterical
- Hysteria, hysterical›convulsions
- Pseudotetany›hysterical
- Seizure›autonomic(hysterical)
- Seizure›hysterical
- Tetany›functional(hysterical)
- Tetany›psychogenic(conversion reaction)
- Tetany›convulsions›hysterical
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under F44
- F44.0Dissociative amnesia
- F44.1Dissociative fugue
- F44.2Dissociative stupor
- F44.4Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit
- 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