ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F90-F98 › F98 Other behavioral and emotional... › F98.3
Pica of infancy and childhood
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 Pica of infancy and childhood
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 F98 Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Excludes2 - not included here
- breath-holding spells (R06.89)
- gender identity disorder of childhood (F64.2)
- Kleine-Levin syndrome (G47.13)
- obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42.-)
- sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F51.-)
Inherited from the F90-F98 section Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence (F90-F98)
Note
- Codes within categories F90-F98 may be used regardless of the age of a patient. These disorders generally have onset within the childhood or adolescent years, but may continue throughout life or not be diagnosed until adulthood
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.
- Geophagia
- Amylophagia
- Clay eating
- Depraved appetite
- Disorder > feeding
- Appetite > depraved
- Appetite > perverted
- Food > rejection NEC
- Feeding > problem > nonorganic
- Disorder > psychogenic NOS > feeding
- Dirt-eating child
- Pica > infant or child
- Disorder > eating > child > pica
- Disorder > eating > pica > childhood
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F98.0 | Enuresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition | Valid |
| F98.1 | Encopresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition | Valid |
| F98.2 | Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood | Not billable |
| F98.4 | Stereotyped movement disorders | Valid |
| F98.5 | Adult onset fluency disorder | Valid |
| F98.8 | Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence | Valid |
| F98.9 | Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence | Valid |