F98.29 — Other feeding disorders of infancy and early childhood
F98.29 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other feeding disorders of infancy and early childhood. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
F98.29 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
F98.29 is named in 12 Medicare coverage policies — 11 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
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
- A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
- A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
How F98.29 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 F98.29.
- Difficult, difficulty›feeding›nonorganic(infant or child)
- Disorder›eating›child
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F98.2. If F98.29 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about F98.29
- Is F98.29 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. F98.29 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does F98.29 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence (F90-F98).