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F23 ICD-10-CM Code: Brief psychotic disorder

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
2 inclusion terms · 1 Excludes2
Risk adjustment
CMS-HCC V28: 1 category · RxHCC V08 category 130

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43, Appendix B.

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Risk Adjustment (CMS-HCC)

Payment categories this diagnosis maps to under CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2026.

  • HCC 152 — Psychosis, Except Schizophrenia (supersedes HCC 153, HCC 154, HCC 155)

Other models: RxHCC V08 HCC 130

Risk scores depend on the enrollee's full accepted diagnosis set and segment; a category mapping alone does not determine payment.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for F23 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Paranoid reaction
  • Psychogenic paranoid psychosis

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Coder workflow for F23

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement
Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes2 — not part of F23(1 note)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in F23. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    CompareF30.2, F31.2, F31.5, F31.64, F32.3, F33.3

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.b

Every row is derived from this code’s own record — its title, tabular notes, 7th-character family and same-category siblings — with fixed MedCoder wording; nothing is inferred about a patient. The official notes and guideline text are in the sections each row links to, and they control.

Code Overview

Brief psychotic disorder is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (F23).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (26)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Verify Before Coding

  • CC as a secondary diagnosis (FY2026). Can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name F23 or its code family, from the CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes. Tabular-note edges are stored at the code family level that carries each note.

Referenced by 5 Excludes1 notes across 2 chapters: F20 — Schizophrenia, F20.3 — Undifferentiated schizophrenia, F53 — Mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified, R44 — Other symptoms and signs involving general sensations and perceptions, R46 — Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior.

These codes’ tabular lists mark this diagnosis as mutually exclusive — not reported together unless the conditions are documented as unrelated.

Referenced by 2 Excludes2 notes: F06.2 — Psychotic disorder with delusions due to known physiological condition, F22 — Delusional disorders.

These codes’ tabular lists name this diagnosis as distinct — both may be reported when both are documented.

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 MS-DRG: CC — Complication or Comorbidity. Reported as a secondary diagnosis, this code raises the stay's MS-DRG severity tier — except when the principal diagnosis is one of 3 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 1 MS-DRG: DRG 885 (MDC 19).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):MBD001 — Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical process (MS-DRG)

Acts as CC — raises the severity of other admissions. CMS groups these diagnoses into one MS-DRG principal-diagnosis exclusion process — a CC/MCC on this list never raises severity when the principal diagnosis is also on it.

F43.81 — Prolonged grief disorder, F43.89 — Other reactions to severe stress

Same CMS-HCC risk category (V28)

CMS maps these diagnoses to the same Hierarchical Condition Category (Psychosis, Except Schizophrenia) for risk-adjusted payment.

F22 — Delusional disorders, F24 — Shared psychotic disorder, F28 — Other psychotic disorder not due to a substance or known physiological condition, F29 — Unspecified psychosis not due to a substance or known physiological condition, F30.2 — Manic episode, severe with psychotic symptoms, F31.2 — Bipolar disorder, current episode manic severe with psychotic features, F31.5 — Bipolar disorder, current episode depressed, severe, with psychotic features, F31.64 — Bipolar disorder, current episode mixed, severe, with psychotic features, F32.3 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, severe with psychotic features, F33.3 — Major depressive disorder, recurrent, severe with psychotic symptoms, F53.1 — Puerperal psychosis

Related risk categories

These categories interact through CMS's HCC hierarchy — one can suppress the other's risk-adjustment weight when both are present on a claim.

Schizophrenia, Personality Disorders; Anorexia/Bulimia Nervosa, Bipolar Disorders without Psychosis, Major Depression, Moderate or Severe, without Psychosis

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders).

F19.959 — Other psychoactive substance use, unspecified with psychoactive substance-induced psychotic disorder, unspecified, F20.0 — Paranoid schizophrenia, F20.1 — Disorganized schizophrenia, F20.2 — Catatonic schizophrenia, F20.3 — Undifferentiated schizophrenia, F20.5 — Residual schizophrenia, F20.81 — Schizophreniform disorder, F20.89 — Other schizophrenia, F20.9 — Schizophrenia, unspecified, F21 — Schizotypal disorder, F22 — Delusional disorders, F24 — Shared psychotic disorder, F25.0 — Schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, F25.1 — Schizoaffective disorder, depressive type, F25.8 — Other schizoaffective disorders, F25.9 — Schizoaffective disorder, unspecified, F28 — Other psychotic disorder not due to a substance or known physiological condition, F29 — Unspecified psychosis not due to a substance or known physiological condition, F53 — Mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified, F53.1 — Puerperal psychosis, +83 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main terms “Psychosis, psychotic”, “Schizophrenia, schizophrenic”, “Episode”, …; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

F20.0 — Paranoid schizophrenia (schizophrenia), F20.1 — Disorganized schizophrenia (hebephrenic), F20.2 — Catatonic schizophrenia (stupor), F20.3 — Undifferentiated schizophrenia (atypical), F20.5 — Residual schizophrenia (residual schizophrenic), F20.81 — Schizophreniform disorder (schizophreniform), F20.89 — Other schizophrenia (simple), F20.9 — Schizophrenia, unspecified, F21 — Schizotypal disorder (schizophrenic, latent), F22 — Delusional disorders (paranoid), F24 — Shared psychotic disorder (shared), F25.0 — Schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type (cyclic), F25.1 — Schizoaffective disorder, depressive type (schizoaffective, depressive type), F25.8 — Other schizoaffective disorders (mixed schizophrenic and affective), F25.9 — Schizoaffective disorder, unspecified (schizoaffective), F28 — Other psychotic disorder not due to a substance or known physiological condition (involutional), F29 — Unspecified psychosis not due to a substance or known physiological condition, F30.10 — Manic episode without psychotic symptoms, unspecified (manic, without psychotic symptoms), F30.11 — Manic episode without psychotic symptoms, mild (manic, without psychotic symptoms, mild), F30.12 — Manic episode without psychotic symptoms, moderate (manic, without psychotic symptoms, moderate), +122 more

Lab tests where this diagnosis supports Medicare coverage (NCD)

Medicare's National Coverage Determination (NCD) program lists this diagnosis as medical justification for these lab tests.

Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)

Contextual Map

Every relationship of F23 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Run F23 with these 13 related codes in Claim Check

Hierarchy

Excludes2

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

Clinical classification (CCSR)

Risk adjustment (CMS-HCC)

  • HCC 152 — Psychosis, Except Schizophrenia [CMS-HCC]: “Psychosis, Except Schizophrenia — supersedes HCC 153 (Personality Disorders; Anorexia/Bulimia Nervosa), HCC 154 (Bipolar Disorders without Psychosis), HCC 155 (Major Depression, Moderate or Severe, without Psychosis)”— CMS-HCC V28 · 2026

MS-DRG Grouper

  • CC — Complication or Comorbidity [MS-DRG severity]: “As a secondary diagnosis this code can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier (CC).”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix C) · FY2026
  • DRG 885 — PSYCHOSES[MS-DRG]: “PSYCHOSES (MDC 19)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2026

MDC crossing

  • MDC 19 — Mental Diseases and Disorders[MDC crossing]: “Mental Diseases and Disorders — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026

Index entries (26)

  • Attack, attacks, schizophreniform, brief[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Bouffée délirante[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Disorder (of), psychotic, transient (acute)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Disorder (of), schizophreniform, brief[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Episode, psychotic[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Episode, schizophrenic NEC, brief (acute)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Oneirophrenia[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Paranoid, psychosis (climacteric) (involutional) (menopausal), psychogenic (acute)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • and 18 more

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v43 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Risk adjustment Official source data
2026 Mid-Year Final ICD-10 Mappings + Model Software (cms.gov/files/zip/2026-midyear-final-icd-10-mappings.zip, 2026-midyear-final-model-software.zip) — CMS-HCC V28, PY2026 mid-year final release Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
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MedCoder.ai. "F23 — Brief psychotic disorder." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/f23-brief-psychotic-disorder

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Brief psychotic disorder

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.