ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F40-F48 › F44 Dissociative and conversion disorders › F44.5
Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions
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 seizures or convulsions
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.
- Seizure
- Convulsive
- Convulsions
- Spasmophilia
- Pseudotetanus
- Carpopedal spasm
- State > convulsive
- Seizure > convulsive
- Disorder > convulsive
- Spasm, spastic, spasticity > carpopedal
- Hysteroepilepsy
- Fit > hysterical
- Seizure > autonomic
- Tetany > functional
- Seizure > hysterical
- Tetany > psychogenic
- Convulsions > hysterical
- Pseudotetany > hysterical
- Convulsions > dissociative
- Tetany > hyperpnea > hysterical
- Tetany > convulsions > hysterical
- Hysteria, hysterical > convulsions
- Tetany > hyperkinetic > hysterical
- Tetany > hyperventilation > hysterical
- Autonomic, autonomous > hysteria seizure
- Disorder > conversion > with > attacks or seizures
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F44.0 | Dissociative amnesia | Valid |
| F44.1 | Dissociative fugue | Valid |
| F44.2 | Dissociative stupor | Valid |
| F44.4 | Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit | 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 |