F53
F53 — Mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
F53 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Other codes that can never be billed with F53
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at F53. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading F53 alone.
- O90.6Postpartum mood disturbance
Risk adjustment
F53 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 F53
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about F53
- Is F53 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. F53 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does F53 sit in the tabular list?
- Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99), in the block Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors (F50-F59).
- What cannot be coded together with F53?
- F53 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.