F43.2

Adjustment disorders

FY2027Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders/F40–F48 Anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders

Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.

F43.2 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for adjustment disorders. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are F43.20 Adjustment disorder, unspecified; F43.21 Adjustment disorder with depressed mood; F43.22 Adjustment disorder with anxiety; F43.23 Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood and 3 more. Its coding notes include 2 Excludes2 entries.

Excludes2

Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.

This code
  • separation anxiety disorder of childhood (F93.0)
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
Inherited from Chapter 5 Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

Includes

Further defines or gives examples of the content of the category.

Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
Inherited from Chapter 5 Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • disorders of psychological development

Inclusion terms

Conditions classified to this code.

This code
  • Culture shock
  • Grief reaction
  • Hospitalism in children

More specific codes under F43.2 7