ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F30-F39 › F33 Major depressive disorder, recurrent › F33.9

F33.9

Major depressive disorder, recurrent, unspecified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Major depressive disorder, recurrent, unspecified

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from F33 Major depressive disorder, recurrent

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • bipolar disorder (F31.-)
  • manic episode (F30.-)

Includes

  • recurrent episodes of depressive reaction
  • recurrent episodes of endogenous depression
  • recurrent episodes of major depression
  • recurrent episodes of psychogenic depression
  • recurrent episodes of reactive depression
  • recurrent episodes of seasonal affective disorder
  • recurrent episodes of seasonal depressive disorder
  • recurrent episodes of vital depression

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
F33.0 Major depressive disorder, recurrent, mild Valid
F33.1 Major depressive disorder, recurrent, moderate Valid
F33.2 Major depressive disorder, recurrent severe without psychotic features Valid
F33.3 Major depressive disorder, recurrent, severe with psychotic symptoms Valid
F33.4 Major depressive disorder, recurrent, in remission Not billable
F33.8 Other recurrent depressive disorders Valid