ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F40-F48 › F43 Reaction to severe stress, and... › F43.0
F43.0
Acute stress reaction
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 Acute stress reaction
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.
- Worn out
- Brain > syndrome
- Stress > reaction
- State > confusional > acute
- State > confusional > subacute
- Syndrome > brain > acute or subacute
- Reaction > organic, acute or subacute
- Shellshock
- Combat fatigue
- Crisis > state
- State > crisis
- Shock > psychic
- Fatigue > combat
- Battle exhaustion
- Crisis > acute reaction
- Reaction > crisis, acute
- Disorder > acute > stress
- Disorder > stress > acute
- Reaction > stress > acute
- Situational > reaction > acute
- Exhaustion, exhaustive > battle
- Delirium, delirious > exhaustion
- Disturbance > situational > acute
- Exhaustion, exhaustive > delirium
- Psychosis, psychotic > exhaustive
- Situational > disturbance > acute
- Exhaustion, exhaustive > psychosis
- Fugue > reaction to exceptional stress
- Panic > reaction to exceptional stress
- Stupor > reaction to exceptional stress
- Disorder > dissociative > brief reactive
- Reaction > combat and operational stress
- State > agitated > acute reaction to stress
- Crisis > emotional > acute reaction to stress
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F43.1 | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | Not billable |
| F43.2 | Adjustment disorders | Not billable |
| F43.8 | Other reactions to severe stress | Not billable |
| F43.9 | Reaction to severe stress, unspecified | Valid |