F98.8
Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Billable code
This code does not map to a risk-adjusting HCC in the loaded models.
Coding notes
Excludes 1 never coded together · Excludes 2 may co-exist
This code · F98.8
Synonyms
Excessive masturbation Nail-biting Nose-picking Thumb-sucking
Inherited from F98Oth behav/emotn disord w onset usly occur in chldhd and adol
Inherited from F90-F98Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
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
Inherited from chapter 5Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders
Includes
disorders of psychological development
Excludes 2
symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
Official Guidelines for F98.8
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13 index paths lead to this code
- Masturbation
- Nose-picking
- Onanism
- Onychophagia
- Picking, nose
- Sucking thumb, child
- Attention › deficit disorder or syndrome
- Deficiency, deficient › attention
- Disorder › attention-deficit without hyperactivity
- Impediment, speech › psychogenic
- Nail › biting
- Thumb › sucking
- Speech › defect, disorder, disturbance, impediment › psychogenic, in childhood and adolescence