F60.3 — Borderline personality disorder
F60.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for borderline personality disorder. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- antisocial personality disorder (F60.2)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Aggressive personality (disorder)
- Emotionally unstable personality disorder
- Explosive personality (disorder)
Risk adjustment
F60.3 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
F60.3 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies — 14 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
- A56614Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
- A56850Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Programs
How F60.3 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 F60.3.
- Emotionality, pathological
- Excitability, abnormal, under minor stress(personality disorder)
- Quarrelsomeness
- Borderline›personality
- Instability›emotional(excessive)
- Instability›personality(emotional)
- Personality›aggressive
- Personality›borderline
- Personality›emotionally unstable
- Personality›explosive
- Personality›labile(emotional)
- Personality›unstable(emotional)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F60. If F60.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- F60.0Paranoid personality disorder
- F60.1Schizoid personality disorder
- F60.2Antisocial personality disorder
- F60.4Histrionic personality disorder
- F60.5Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- F60.6Avoidant personality disorder
- F60.7Dependent personality disorder
- F60.8Other specific personality disorders
- F60.9Personality disorder, unspecified
Questions about F60.3
- Is F60.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F60.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F60.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Disorders of adult personality and behavior (F60-F69).