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F45.4

F45.4: Pain disorders related to psychological factors

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F45.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pain disorders related to psychological factors. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above F45.4

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

Written on F45: Somatoform disorders

  • dissociative and conversion disorders (F44.-)
  • factitious disorders (F68.1-, F68.A)
  • hair-plucking (F63.3)
  • lalling (F80.0)
  • lisping (F80.0)
  • malingering [conscious simulation] (Z76.5)
  • nail-biting (F98.8)
  • psychological or behavioral factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere (F54)
  • sexual dysfunction, not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F52.-)
  • thumb-sucking (F98.8)
  • tic disorders (in childhood and adolescence) (F95.-)
  • Tourette's syndrome (F95.2)
  • trichotillomania (F63.3)

Other codes that can never be billed with F45.4

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

  • G89Pain, not elsewhere classified
  • M54Dorsalgia
  • M79Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified
  • R52Pain, unspecified

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 F45.4

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under F45

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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