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R45

Symptoms and signs involving emotional state

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:

  • R45.0 Nervousness
  • R45.1 Restlessness and agitation
  • R45.2 Unhappiness
  • R45.3 Demoralization and apathy
  • R45.4 Irritability and anger
  • R45.5 Hostility
  • R45.6 Violent behavior
  • R45.7 State of emotional shock and stress, unspecified
  • R45.8 Other symptoms and signs involving emotional state (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Symptoms and signs involving emotional state

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 the R40-R46 section Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • symptoms and signs constituting part of a pattern of mental disorder (F01-F99)