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F48.2
Billable

Pseudobulbar affect

Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders

Inclusion Terms

1 item
  • Involuntary emotional expression disorder

Code First

5 items
  • underlying cause, if known, such as:
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (G12.21)
  • multiple sclerosis (G35)
  • sequelae of cerebrovascular disease (I69.-)
  • sequelae of traumatic intracranial injury (S06.-)

Billable Code

F48.2 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

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Pseudobulbar Affect

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

1 item

From F01-F99:

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