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F45.21
Billable

Hypochondriasis

Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders

Inclusion Terms

2 items
  • Hypochondriacal neurosis
  • Illness anxiety disorder

Billable Code

F45.21 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

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Illness Anxiety Disorder

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Includes

1 item

From F01-F99:

  • disorders of psychological development

Excludes2

16 items

From F01-F99:

  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

From F45:

  • dissociative and conversion disorders (F44.-)
  • factitious disorders (F68.1-, F68.A)
  • hair-plucking (F63.3)
  • lalling (F80.0)
  • lisping (F80.0)
  • malingering [conscious simulation] (Z76.5)
  • nail-biting (F98.8)
  • psychological or behavioral factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere (F54)
  • sexual dysfunction, not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F52.-)
  • thumb-sucking (F98.8)
  • tic disorders (in childhood and adolescence) (F95.-)
  • Tourette's syndrome (F95.2)
  • trichotillomania (F63.3)

From F45.2:

  • delusional dysmorphophobia (F22)
  • fixed delusions about bodily functions or shape (F22)
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