F43.2
F43.2 — Adjustment disorders
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
F43.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for adjustment disorders. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
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.
- separation anxiety disorder of childhood (F93.0)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Culture shock
- Grief reaction
- Hospitalism in children
Risk adjustment
F43.2 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.
Code to one of these instead F43.2
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- F43.20Adjustment disorder, unspecified
- F43.21Adjustment disorder with depressed mood
- F43.22Adjustment disorder with anxiety
- F43.23Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
- F43.24Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct
- F43.25Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct
- F43.29Adjustment disorder with other symptoms
Related codes at this level
Codes that share F43. If F43.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about F43.2
- Is F43.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. F43.2 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does F43.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders (F40-F48).