ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F50-F59 › F55 Abuse of non-psychoactive substances › F55.3
Abuse of steroids or hormones
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 Abuse of steroids or hormones
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 F55 Abuse of non-psychoactive substances
Excludes2 - not included here
- abuse of psychoactive substances (F10-F19)
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.
- Opioid > abuse
- Drug > harmful use
- Harmful use > drug
- Use > volatile solvents
- Use > drug NEC > harmful
- Intoxication > drug > acute
- Disorder > drug related > abuse
- Use > hallucinogen NEC > harmful
- Use > patent medicines > harmful
- Use > nonprescribed drugs > harmful
- Korsakoff's > drug-induced > due to drug abuse
- Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome or psychosis > drug-induced > due to drug abuse
- Abuse > hormones
- Abuse > steroids
- Abuse > drug NEC > hormones
- Abuse > drug NEC > steroids
- Abuse > non-psychoactive substance NEC > hormones
- Abuse > non-psychoactive substance NEC > steroids
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F55.0 | Abuse of antacids | Valid |
| F55.1 | Abuse of herbal or folk remedies | Valid |
| F55.2 | Abuse of laxatives | Valid |
| F55.4 | Abuse of vitamins | Valid |
| F55.8 | Abuse of other non-psychoactive substances | Valid |