F98
F98 — Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
F98 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. 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.
Other codes that can never be billed with F98
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at F98. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading F98 alone.
Risk adjustment
F98 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 F98
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- 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
- F98.9Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Questions about F98
- Is F98 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. F98 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does F98 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).