ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F40-F48 › F44 Dissociative and conversion disorders › F44.4
Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit
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 Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit
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.
- Flexure
- Neurotic
- Wry neck
- Herniation
- Stiff neck
- Hemiparesis
- Monoparesis
- Paraparesis
- Loss > voice
- Voice > loss
- Drop > finger
- Hemiparalysis
- Change > joint
- Mental > upset
- Mills' disease
- Mushrooming hip
- Sarcoepiplocele
- Deformity > thumb
- Mental > disorder
- Sydenham's chorea
- Change > hip joint
- Overriding > finger
- Retraction > finger
- Saint > Vitus' dance
- Posthemiplegic chorea
- Reaction > neurogenic
- Derangement > shoulder
- Disorder > psychoneurotic
- Elevated, elevation > GFR
- Reaction > psychoneurotic
- Tight, tightness > tendon
- Paralysis, paralytic > limb
- Disorder > joint > stiffness
- Disorder > mental > neurotic
- Flexion > contracture, joint
- Gangrene, gangrenous > hernia
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive
- Disorder > joint > derangement
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated
Showing 40 of 169 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F44.0 | Dissociative amnesia | Valid |
| F44.1 | Dissociative fugue | Valid |
| F44.2 | Dissociative stupor | 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 |