F98.9
F98.9: Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
F98.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check F98.9 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2 inherited from the categories above F98.9
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
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
F98.9 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies: 2 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
- A57520Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation and Psychotherapy Services
- A57780Billing and Coding: Psychological and Neuropsychological Tests
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Disturbance›habit, child
- Habit, habituation›disturbance, child
- Disorder›mental›infancy, childhood or adolescence
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
- F98.8Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence