ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F40-F48 › F41 Other anxiety disorders › F41.1
Generalized anxiety disorder
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Generalized anxiety disorder
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 F41 Other anxiety disorders
Excludes2 - not included here
- anxiety in:
- acute stress reaction (F43.0)
- transient adjustment reaction (F43.2)
- neurasthenia (F48.8)
- psychophysiologic disorders (F45.-)
- separation anxiety (F93.0)
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.
- Neurotic
- Mental > upset
- Mental > disorder
- Reaction > neurogenic
- Disorder > psychoneurotic
- Reaction > psychoneurotic
- Disorder > mental > neurotic
- Psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic
- Disorder > mental > psychoneurotic
- Anxiety > state
- State > anxiety
- Anxiety > neurosis
- Anxiety > reaction
- Apprehension state
- Reaction > anxiety
- State > apprehension
- Anxiety > generalized
- Disorder > overanxious
- Neurosis, neurotic > anxiety
- Disorder > anxiety > generalized
- Psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic > anxiety
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F41.0 | Panic disorder [episodic paroxysmal anxiety] | Valid |
| F41.3 | Other mixed anxiety disorders | Valid |
| F41.8 | Other specified anxiety disorders | Valid |
| F41.9 | Anxiety disorder, unspecified | Valid |