F98.8: Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
F98.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check F98.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Excessive masturbation
- Nail-biting
- Nose-picking
- Thumb-sucking
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above F98.8
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on F98: Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Other codes that can never be billed with F98.8
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- F42.4Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
F98.8 is named in 10 Medicare coverage policies: 9 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
- A56685Billing and Coding: Partial Hospitalization Programs
- A56850Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Programs
- A56937Billing and Coding: Psychiatry and Psychology Services
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Masturbation(excessive)
- Nose-picking
- Onanism(excessive)
- Onychophagia
- Picking, nose
- Sucking thumb, child(excessive)
- Attention›deficit disorder or syndrome
- Deficiency, deficient›attention(disorder) (syndrome)
- Disorder›attention-deficit without hyperactivity(adolescent) (adult) (child)
- Impediment, speech›psychogenic(childhood)
- Nail›biting
- Thumb›sucking(child problem)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under F98
- F98.0Enuresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition
- F98.1Encopresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition
- F98.2Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood
- F98.3Pica of infancy and childhood
- F98.4Stereotyped movement disorders
- F98.5Adult onset fluency disorder
- F98.9Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence