ICD-10-CM Codes > F40-F49 > F44
Dissociative and conversion disorders
2025 ICD-10-CM DIAGNOSIS CODE F44
Code Attributes
- Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
Clinical Information
- A disorder whose predominant feature is a loss or alteration in physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder but that is actually a direct expression of a psychological conflict or need.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability and sometimes by amnesia or a physical deficit, such as paralysis, or a sensory deficit, without an organic cause.
- Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not apparently due to physical illness. This diagnosis is not used in contemporary practice.
Type 2 Excludes
- Malingering [conscious simulation] (Z76.5)
Includes
- Conversion hysteria
- Conversion reaction
- Hysteria
- Hysterical psychosis
Codes
- F44.0 Dissociative amnesia
- F44.1 Dissociative fugue
- F44.2 Dissociative stupor
- F44.4 Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit
- F44.5 Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions
- F44.6 Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit
- F44.7 Conversion disorder with mixed symptom presentation
- F44.8 Other dissociative and conversion disorders
- F44.81 Dissociative identity disorder
- F44.89 Other dissociative and conversion disorders
- F44.9 Dissociative and conversion disorder, unspecified
Sources
- "Conversion Disorder - MeSH - NCBI". National Library of Medicine - National Center For Biotechnology Information. National Institute Of Health, n.d., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68003291. Accessed 27 Jan 2025.
- "Information for Hysteria". SIDER. SIDER, n.d., http://sideeffects.embl.de/se/C0020701/. Accessed 27 Jan 2025.
- "MeSH Browser". NIH National Library Of Medicine. National Institute Of Health, n.d., https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D007046. Accessed 27 Jan 2025.
- "ICD-10 Code for Dissociative and conversion disorders- F44- Codify by AAPC". Codify By AAPC. American Academy of Professional Coders, n.d., https://www.aapc.com/codes/icd-10-codes/F44. Accessed 27 Jan 2025.
- "ICD-10 Code for Dissociative and conversion disorders- F44- Codify by AAPC
- ". Codify By AAPC. American Academy of Professional Coders, n.d., https://www.aapc.com/codes/icd-10-codes/F44?srsltid=AfmBOopYBBL03CXf-SAnAqeYwWrXLRv5oIhFmPOb2UXid3hkiM1FXGVt. Accessed 27 Jan 2025.
