F50.00 — Anorexia nervosa, unspecified
F50.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for anorexia nervosa, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
F50.00 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to these categories:
- HCC 153 Personality Disorders; Anorexia/Bulimia Nervosa0.396 RAF
- HCC 153 Personality Disorders; Anorexia/Bulimia Nervosa0.396 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
F50.00 is named in 8 Medicare coverage policies — 7 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52434Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention – Medical Policy Articlenot covered
- A56937Billing and Coding: Psychiatry and Psychology Services
- A57063Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
- A57065Billing and Coding: Outpatient Psychiatry and Psychology Services
How F50.00 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to F50.00.
- Anorexia›nervosa
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F50.0. If F50.00 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about F50.00
- Is F50.00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F50.00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F50.00 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors (F50-F59).