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F50.89 ICD-10-CM Code: Other specified eating disorder

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.

  • MS-DRG 887 — OTHER MENTAL DISORDER DIAGNOSES (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.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Other specified eating disorder is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (F50.89).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for F50.89 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Psychogenic loss of appetite

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.

Indexed Clinical Terms (26)

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

  • Appetite, lack or loss, nonorganic origin
  • Appetite, lack or loss, psychogenic
  • Coprophagy
  • Cyclical vomiting, in migraine,, psychogenic
  • Disorder (of), eating (adult) (psychogenic), pica
  • Disorder (of), eating (adult) (psychogenic), specified NEC
  • Dysorexia, psychogenic
  • Loss (of), appetite (see Anorexia), hysterical
  • Loss (of), appetite (see Anorexia), nonorganic origin
  • Loss (of), appetite (see Anorexia), psychogenic
  • Overeating, nonorganic origin
  • Overeating, psychogenic
  • Parorexia (psychogenic)
  • Perversion, perverted, appetite
  • Perversion, perverted, appetite, psychogenic
  • Pica
  • Problem (with) (related to), feeding NOS (elderly) (infant), nonorganic
  • Refusal of, food, psychogenic
  • Rejection, food, psychogenic
  • Vomiting, cyclical, in migraine,, psychogenic
  • Vomiting, following gastrointestinal surgery, psychogenic
  • Vomiting, hysterical
  • Vomiting, nervous
  • Vomiting, neurotic
  • Vomiting, periodic, psychogenic
  • Vomiting, psychogenic

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on F50.89 name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.

Change history

  • FY2017 — 2016-10-01
    Added to the code set
    Other specified eating disorder
    FY2017 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.

Referenced by Other Codes

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):MBD010 — Feeding and eating 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 887 (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 F50.89 or its code family.

5 Excludes1 notes across 4 chapters: F50.0, P92 (via F50.-), R11, R63.0, Z72.4 (via F50.-).

2 Excludes2 notes across 2 chapters: F98.2 (via F50.-), R63.3 (via F50.-).

Contextual Map

Every relationship of F50.89 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]
  • F50-F59 — Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors [Hierarchy]

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

  • F50.0 — Anorexia nervosa [Excludes1]: “psychogenic loss of appetite (F50.89)” · check together
  • P92 — Feeding problems of newborn [Excludes1](via F50.-): “eating disorders (F50.-)” · check together
  • R11 — Nausea and vomiting [Excludes1]: “psychogenic vomiting (F50.89)” · check together
  • R63.0 — Anorexia [Excludes1]: “loss of appetite of nonorganic origin (F50.89)” · check together
  • Z72.4 — Inappropriate diet and eating habits [Excludes1](via F50.-): “eating disorders (F50.-)” · check together

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

  • F98.2 — Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood [Excludes2](via F50.-): “anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders (F50.-)” · check together
  • R63.3 — Feeding difficulties [Excludes2](via F50.-): “eating disorders (F50.-)” · check together

Clinical classification (CCSR)

  • MBD010 — Feeding and eating disorders [CCSR]

Potential MS-DRG

  • DRG 887 — OTHER MENTAL DISORDER DIAGNOSES [MS-DRG]: “OTHER MENTAL DISORDER DIAGNOSES (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 (26)

  • Appetite, lack or loss, nonorganic origin[Index term]
  • Appetite, lack or loss, psychogenic[Index term]
  • Coprophagy[Index term]
  • Cyclical vomiting, in migraine,, psychogenic[Index term]
  • Disorder (of), eating (adult) (psychogenic), pica[Index term]
  • Disorder (of), eating (adult) (psychogenic), specified NEC[Index term]
  • Dysorexia, psychogenic[Index term]
  • Loss (of), appetite (see Anorexia), hysterical[Index term]
  • and 18 more

Nearest codes (36)

  • F50 — Eating disorders [Sibling]
  • F50.0 — Anorexia nervosa [Sibling]
  • F50.00 — Anorexia nervosa, unspecified [Sibling]
  • F50.01 — Anorexia nervosa, restricting type [Sibling]
  • F50.010 — Anorexia nervosa, restricting type, mild [Sibling]
  • F50.011 — Anorexia nervosa, restricting type, moderate [Sibling]
  • F50.012 — Anorexia nervosa, restricting type, severe [Sibling]
  • F50.013 — Anorexia nervosa, restricting type, extreme [Sibling]
  • and 28 more

Change history

  • FY2017 — Added to the code set [Change history]

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to F50.89 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • F50.810 — Binge eating disorder, mild
  • F50.811 — Binge eating disorder, moderate
  • F50.812 — Binge eating disorder, severe
  • F50.813 — Binge eating disorder, extreme
  • F50.814 — Binge eating disorder, in remission
  • F50.819 — Binge eating disorder, unspecified
  • F50.82 — Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
  • F50.83 — Pica in adults
  • F50.84 — Rumination disorder in adults
  • F50.9 — Eating disorder, unspecified

View all codes in the F50 family