F45.8: Other somatoform disorders
F45.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other somatoform disorders. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check F45.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- sleep related teeth grinding (G47.63)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Psychogenic dysmenorrhea
- Psychogenic dysphagia, including 'globus hystericus'
- Psychogenic pruritus
- Psychogenic torticollis
- Somatoform autonomic dysfunction
- Teeth grinding
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above F45.8
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 F45.8
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
F45.8 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies: 13 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
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
- A56756Billing and Coding: Home Health - Psychiatric Care
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Aerophagy, aerophagia(psychogenic)
- Angioneurosis
- Da Costa's syndrome
- Effort syndrome(psychogenic)
- Globus(hystericus)
- Hyperchylia gastrica, psychogenic
- Neurocirculatory asthenia
- Pneumophagia(psychogenic)
- Pseudocyesis
- Achlorhydria, achlorhydric›psychogenic
- Achylia gastrica›psychogenic
- Acidity, gastric›psychogenic
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.