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F60.3

F60.3: Borderline personality disorder

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

F60.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for borderline personality disorder. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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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. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.

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 one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

  • 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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • 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)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under F60

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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