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F44.6 ICD-10-CM Code: Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit

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

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
8 inclusion terms · 1 Excludes2
Risk adjustment
RxHCC V08 category 133

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.

  • MS-DRG 880 — ACUTE ADJUSTMENT REACTION AND PSYCHOSOCIAL DYSFUNCTION (MDC 19)

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.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for F44.6 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

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

Notes without a marker are published on F44.6 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Includes

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

  • conversion hysteria
  • conversion reaction
  • hysteria
  • hysterical psychosis

Source: inherited from F44

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Conversion disorder with anesthesia or sensory loss
  • Conversion disorder with special sensory symptoms
  • Dissociative anesthesia and sensory loss
  • Psychogenic deafness

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

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

  • malingering conscious simulation

Coder workflow for F44.6

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

Before you code F44.6

  1. F44.6’s title joins a condition with an associated condition or complication. Confirm each component is documented. Where the classification presumes the link through the “with” convention, only a provider statement that the conditions are unrelated defeats it. A combination code is assigned only when it fully identifies the documented conditions; a required second code for the stage, type or manifestation is still reported when the notes ask for it (Guidelines I.B.9, I.A.15).

    Guide: Combination codes →

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).
The associated condition or complication
Whether the associated condition the title names is documented; the “with” convention presumes some links, and a provider statement that the conditions are unrelated defeats it (Guidelines I.A.15).

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes2 — not part of F44.6(1 note)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in F44.6. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

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

Coding decision scenarios

Pattern scenarios for this code’s structure — decision rules, not clinical cases

Documentation: Only one of the components this code’s title joins is documented.

Coding question: Is F44.6 supported?

Path: Review the code for the documented component on its own.

Reason: A combination code is assigned only when it fully identifies the documented conditions; otherwise the documented component takes its own code (Guidelines I.B.9).

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

Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (F44.6).

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 (24)

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

  • 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 in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name F44.6 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 4 Excludes1 notes across 2 chapters: H90.5 — Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss, H91 — Other and unspecified hearing loss, R20 — Disturbances of skin sensation, R41 — Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness (via F44.-).

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: F45 — Somatoform disorders (via F44.-), F93.0 — Separation anxiety disorder of childhood (via F44.-).

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

Named in the grouper logic of 1 MS-DRG: DRG 880 (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):MBD007 — Trauma- and stressor-related 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 category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Trauma- and stressor-related disorders).

F43.23 — Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, F43.24 — Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct, F43.25 — Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct, F43.29 — Adjustment disorder with other symptoms, F43.8 — Other reactions to severe stress, F43.81 — Prolonged grief disorder, F43.89 — Other reactions to severe stress, F43.9 — Reaction to severe stress, unspecified, 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, F44.7 — Conversion disorder with mixed symptom presentation, F44.81 — Dissociative identity disorder, F44.89 — Other dissociative and conversion disorders, F44.9 — Dissociative and conversion disorder, unspecified, F48.1 — Depersonalization-derealization syndrome, F94.1 — Reactive attachment disorder of childhood, F94.2 — Disinhibited attachment disorder of childhood, +7 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

F13.232 — Sedative, hypnotic or anxiolytic dependence with withdrawal with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, hypnotic withdrawal), F14.122 — Cocaine abuse with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, cocaine intoxication, in, abuse), F14.222 — Cocaine dependence with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, cocaine intoxication, in, dependence), F14.922 — Cocaine use, unspecified with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, cocaine intoxication), F15.122 — Other stimulant abuse with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, amphetamine intoxication, in, abuse), F15.222 — Other stimulant dependence with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, amphetamine intoxication, in, dependence), F15.922 — Other stimulant use, unspecified with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, amphetamine intoxication), F16.122 — Hallucinogen abuse with intoxication with perceptual disturbance (perceptual due to, phencyclidine intoxication), F40.10 — Social phobia, unspecified (emotions specific to childhood and adolescence, with, shyness), F43.0 — Acute stress reaction (situational, acute), F45.8 — Other somatoform disorders (digestive, psychogenic), F45.9 — Somatoform disorder, unspecified (psychogenic), F50.89 — Other specified eating disorder (appetite, hysterical), F51.9 — Sleep disorder not due to a substance or known physiological condition, unspecified (sleep, nonorganic origin), F52.0 — Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (sexual desire), F52.1 — Sexual aversion disorder (sexual), F54 — Psychological and behavioral factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere (mental, associated with diseases classified elsewhere), F60.2 — Antisocial personality disorder (sociopathic), F60.9 — Personality disorder, unspecified (personality), F63.9 — Impulse disorder, unspecified (conduct, compulsive), +224 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of F44.6 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 F44.6 with these 6 related codes in Claim Check

Hierarchy

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

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 (24)

  • Amaurosis (acquired) (congenital), hysterical[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Amblyopia (congenital) (ex anopsia) (partial) (suppression), hysterical[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Anesthesia, anesthetic, dissociative[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Anesthesia, anesthetic, functional (hysterical)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Anesthesia, anesthetic, hysterical[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Anosmia, hysterical[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Asthenopia, hysterical[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Asthenopia, psychogenic[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • and 16 more

Nearest codes (11)

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
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
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

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MedCoder.ai. "F44.6 — Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/f44.6-conversion-disorder-with-sensory-symptom-or-deficit

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit

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.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to F44.6 in its code family, with their registry titles.

View all codes in the F44 family