Dissociative fugue

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Dissociative fugue

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 F44 Dissociative and conversion disorders

Excludes2 - not included here

malingering [conscious simulation] (Z76.5)

Includes

conversion hysteria
conversion reaction
hysteria
hysterical psychosis

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.

Paramnesia
Loss > memory
Lack of > memory
Disturbance > memory
Memory disturbance, lack or loss
Symptoms NEC > involving > awareness > amnesia
Symptoms NEC > involving > cognitive functions > amnesia
Fugue > hysterical
Fugue > dissociative
Amnesia > dissociative > with dissociative fugue

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
F44.0	Dissociative amnesia	Valid
F44.2	Dissociative stupor	Valid
F44.4	Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit	Valid
F44.5	Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions	Valid
F44.6	Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit	Valid
F44.7	Conversion disorder with mixed symptom presentation	Valid
F44.8	Other dissociative and conversion disorders	Not billable
F44.9	Dissociative and conversion disorder, unspecified	Valid