F52.21 — Male erectile disorder
F52.21 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for male erectile disorder. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Erectile disorder
- Psychogenic impotence
Other codes that can never be billed with F52.21
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at F52.21. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading F52.21 alone.
- N52Male erectile dysfunction
Risk adjustment
F52.21 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
F52.21 is named in 12 Medicare coverage policies — 10 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 2 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
- A56865Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalizationnot covered
- A56758Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Vascular Studies
- A56937Billing and Coding: Psychiatry and Psychology Services
How F52.21 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 F52.21.
- Failure, failed›genital response(male)
- Failure, failed›sexual arousal(male)
- Impotence›psychogenic
- Disorder›erectile›nonorganic
- Dysfunction›sexual›failure of genital response(male)
- Failure, failed›erection›nonorganic
- Disorder›male›erectile›nonorganic
- Dysfunction›sexual›male›erectile›psychogenic
- Dysfunction›sexual›male›psychogenic›erectile
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F52.2. If F52.21 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about F52.21
- Is F52.21 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F52.21 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F52.21 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).
- What cannot be coded together with F52.21?
- F52.21 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.