ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F50-F59 › F50 Eating disorders › F50.9
Eating disorder, unspecified
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 Eating disorder, unspecified
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 F50 Eating disorders
Excludes1 - never coded here
- anorexia NOS (R63.0)
- feeding problems of newborn (P92.-)
- polyphagia (R63.2)
Excludes2 - not included here
- feeding difficulties (R63.3-)
- feeding disorder in infancy or childhood (F98.2-)
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.
- Disorder > feeding
- Food > rejection NEC
- Inability to > swallow
- Appetite > lack or loss
- Disorder > eating > anorexia
- Feeding > problem > nonorganic
- Disorder > psychogenic NOS > feeding
- Disorder > eating
- Bulimia > atypical
- Aphagia > psychogenic
- Bulimia > normal weight
- Anorexia > nervosa > atypical
- Disorder > feeding > specified NEC
- Disorder > psychogenic NOS > appetite
- Disorder > feeding > or eating disorder
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F50.0 | Anorexia nervosa | Not billable |
| F50.2 | Bulimia nervosa | Not billable |
| F50.8 | Other eating disorders | Not billable |