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F42

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 only, and a category header from FY2017.

Submit one of these 5 more specific codes instead:

  • F42.2 Mixed obsessional thoughts and acts
  • F42.3 Hoarding disorder
  • F42.4 Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder
  • F42.8 Other obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • F42.9 Obsessive-compulsive disorder, unspecified

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 Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  2. FY2017 Stopped being billable

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

  • obsessive-compulsive personality (disorder) (F60.5)
  • obsessive-compulsive symptoms occurring in depression (F32.-, F33.-)
  • obsessive-compulsive symptoms occurring in schizophrenia (F20.-)