F60.6 — Avoidant personality disorder
F60.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for avoidant personality disorder. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Anxious personality disorder
Risk adjustment
F60.6 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
F60.6 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
- A56645Billing and Coding: Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
- A56937Billing and Coding: Psychiatry and Psychology Services
- A57065Billing and Coding: Outpatient Psychiatry and Psychology Services
How F60.6 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 F60.6.
- Personality›anxious
- Personality›avoidant
- Disorder›personality›anxious
- Disorder›personality›avoidant
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F60. If F60.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- F60.0Paranoid personality disorder
- F60.1Schizoid personality disorder
- F60.2Antisocial personality disorder
- F60.3Borderline personality disorder
- F60.4Histrionic personality disorder
- F60.5Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- F60.7Dependent personality disorder
- F60.8Other specific personality disorders
- F60.9Personality disorder, unspecified
Questions about F60.6
- Is F60.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F60.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F60.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Disorders of adult personality and behavior (F60-F69).