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F32.A ICD-10-CM Code: Depression, unspecified

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

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0, 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.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Depression, unspecified is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (F32.A).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for F32.A in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • single episode of agitated depression
  • single episode of depressive reaction
  • single episode of major depression
  • single episode of psychogenic depression
  • single episode of reactive depression
  • single episode of vital depression

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Depression NOS
  • Depressive disorder NOS

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

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

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on F32.A name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.

Change history

  • FY2022 — 2021-10-01
    Added to the code set
    Depression, unspecified
    FY2022 changes

Verify Before Coding

  • No Medicare Code Editor or MS-DRG Definitions Manual restrictions apply to this code.

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

Contextual Map

Every relationship of F32.A 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.

Hierarchy

  • F01-F99 — Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (F01-F99) (F01-F99) [Hierarchy]
  • F30-F39 — Mood [affective] disorders [Hierarchy]

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

  • F30 — Manic episode [Excludes1](via F32.-): “major depressive disorder, single episode (F32.-)” · check together
  • F31 — Bipolar disorder [Excludes1](via F32.-): “major depressive disorder, single episode (F32.-)” · check together
  • R40.1 — Stupor [Excludes1](via F32.-): “depressive stupor (F31.-, F32.-, F33.-)” · check together

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

  • F42 — Obsessive-compulsive disorder [Excludes2](via F32.-): “obsessive-compulsive symptoms occurring in depression (F32.-, F33.-)” · check together
  • F63.2 — Kleptomania [Excludes2](via F32.-): “depressive disorder with stealing (F31.-, F32.-, F33.-)” · check together
  • R53.83 — Other fatigue [Excludes2](via F32.-): “exhaustion and fatigue due to depressive episode (F32.-)” · check together

Clinical classification (CCSR)

  • MBD002 — Depressive disorders [CCSR]

Potential MS-DRG

  • DRG 881 — DEPRESSIVE NEUROSES [MS-DRG]: “DEPRESSIVE NEUROSES (MDC 19)”

MDC crossing · procedures

  • 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.”

Index entries

  • Depression (acute) (mental)[Index term]
  • Despondency[Index term]
  • Disorder (of), depressive[Index term]
  • Episode, depressive[Index term]
  • Melancholia[Index term]
  • State (of), depressive[Index term]

Nearest codes (11)

  • F32 — Depressive episode [Sibling]
  • F32.0 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, mild [Sibling]
  • F32.1 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, moderate [Sibling]
  • F32.2 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, severe without psychotic features [Sibling]
  • F32.3 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, severe with psychotic features [Sibling]
  • F32.4 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, in partial remission [Sibling]
  • F32.5 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, in full remission [Sibling]
  • F32.8 — Other depressive episodes [Sibling]
  • and 3 more

Change history

  • FY2022 — Added to the code set [Change history]

Referenced by Other Codes

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):MBD002 — Depressive disorders (default).

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

Potential MS-DRG Relationships (FY2026)

Not on the CMS CC/MCC list — as a secondary diagnosis this code does not change MS-DRG severity.

Named in the grouper logic of 1 MS-DRG: DRG 881 (MDC 19).

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

Official ICD-10-CM tabular notes on other codes that name F32.A or its code family.

3 Excludes1 notes across 2 chapters: F30 (via F32.-), F31 (via F32.-), R40.1 (via F32.-).

3 Excludes2 notes across 2 chapters: F42 (via F32.-), F63.2 (via F32.-), R53.83 (via F32.-).

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to F32.A in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • F32.0 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, mild
  • F32.1 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, moderate
  • F32.2 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, severe without psychotic features
  • F32.3 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, severe with psychotic features
  • F32.4 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, in partial remission
  • F32.5 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, in full remission
  • F32.8 — Other depressive episodes
  • F32.81 — Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
  • F32.89 — Other specified depressive episodes
  • F32.9 — Major depressive disorder, single episode, unspecified

View all codes in the F32 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (6)

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.

  • Depression (acute) (mental)
  • Despondency
  • Disorder (of), depressive
  • Episode, depressive
  • Melancholia
  • State (of), depressive