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F94.0 ICD-10-CM Code: Selective mutism

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

Coding at a Glance

Official instructions
1 inclusion term · 4 Excludes2

What these terms mean →

Billable · FY2027A valid, specific ICD-10-CM code, reportable for dates of service in FY2027.

What you need to know

Source: CMS/NCHS Official ICD-10-CM tabular notes, quoted. From the CMS/NCHS tabular list for the release in force. A note the category or block publishes applies to this code too, and is marked with where it comes from.

Excludes2Not included here; may be reported together
  • pervasive developmental disorders (F84.-)
  • schizophrenia (F20.-)
  • specific developmental disorders of speech and language (F80.-)
  • transient mutism as part of separation anxiety in young children (F93.0)
IncludesWhat this code covers
  • Elective mutism

Where it sits Source: CMS/NCHS

Under:Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental DisordersF90-F98 Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescenceF94 Disorders of social functioning with onset specific to childhood and adolescence

Most relevant related codes MedCoder-derived

Read off the official notes above and this code’s own position in the tabular list. Which to report is a documentation question; Compare shows the two side by side.

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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 v44, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 886 — BEHAVIORAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS (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 F94.0 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2027Effective: October 1, 2026

Trace:FY2027 changesChange historyRelease, file and checksum

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Elective mutism

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

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

Coder workflow for F94.0

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 F94.0(4 notes)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in F94.0. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    CompareF84, F20, F80, F93.0

    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.

Don’t confuse F94.0 with…

MedCoder analysis — pairs from this code’s official notes, distinctions written by MedCoder

The codes most likely to be picked instead of F94.0 — named in its own official notes, or sharing its laterality or encounter family — with what separates them and which documentation moves the case. Each links to the full comparison.

  • F94.9— Specificity relationship (Review)

    Overlapping diagnoses in the same category.

    Overlapping codes in the same category — the documentation decides which is the more specific fit.

    What moves you there: A record that documents no more than “Childhood disorder of social functioning, unspecified” takes F94.9; specificity in the record moves it back here.

    Full comparison: F94.0 vs F94.9 →

  • F84— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of pervasive developmental disorders adds F84; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: F94.0 vs F84 →

  • F20— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of schizophrenia adds F20; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: F94.0 vs F20 →

  • F80— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of specific developmental disorders of speech and language adds F80; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: F94.0 vs F80 →

  • F93.0— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of transient mutism as part of separation anxiety in young children adds F93.0; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: F94.0 vs F93.0 →

Relationships are read from this code's own official notes, its laterality siblings and its encounter family; the wording of each distinction is MedCoder editorial, and the documentation named in each “what moves you there” line is the official note phrase or sibling title itself. Source: CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a.

Coding context

Guidelines, coding notes, decision aids, relationships (with MS-DRG and CCSR classification), hierarchy, HCC, coverage and the context map: what a coder reaches for after the core. Each section names whether it is official source data, a MedCoder-derived relationship or MedCoder editorial.

Code Overview

Selective mutism is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (F94.0).

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

Verify Before Coding

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

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Relationships & Classification

MedCoder-derived relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name F94.0 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 2 Excludes2 notes: F80.1 — Expressive language disorder, F80.2 — Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder.

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

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2027)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2027 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 886 (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):MBD005 — Anxiety and fear-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 (Anxiety and fear-related disorders).

F40.230 — Fear of blood, F40.231 — Fear of injections and transfusions, F40.232 — Fear of other medical care, F40.233 — Fear of injury, F40.240 — Claustrophobia, F40.241 — Acrophobia, F40.242 — Fear of bridges, F40.243 — Fear of flying, F40.248 — Other situational type phobia, F40.290 — Androphobia, F40.291 — Gynephobia, F40.298 — Other specified phobia, F40.8 — Other phobic anxiety disorders, F40.9 — Phobic anxiety disorder, unspecified, F41.0 — Panic disorder [episodic paroxysmal anxiety], F41.1 — Generalized anxiety disorder, F41.3 — Other mixed anxiety disorders, F41.8 — Other specified anxiety disorders, F41.9 — Anxiety disorder, unspecified, F93.0 — Separation anxiety disorder of childhood, +34 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

F60.9 — Personality disorder, unspecified (personality), F63.9 — Impulse disorder, unspecified (conduct, compulsive), F80.9 — Developmental disorder of speech and language, unspecified (speech, developmental), F91.1 — Conduct disorder, childhood-onset type (conduct, unsocialized), F91.2 — Conduct disorder, adolescent-onset type (conduct, socialized), F91.3 — Oppositional defiant disorder (emotions specific to childhood and adolescence, with, oppositional disorder), F91.8 — Other conduct disorders (conduct, specified NEC), F91.9 — Conduct disorder, unspecified (conduct), F93.8 — Other childhood emotional disorders (fear, child), F93.9 — Childhood emotional disorder, unspecified (emotions specific to childhood and adolescence), F98.9 — Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence (habit, child), F99 — Mental disorder, not otherwise specified (mental), G47.9 — Sleep disorder, unspecified (sleep), G90.9 — Disorder of the autonomic nervous system, unspecified (sympathetic), G97.1 — Other reaction to spinal and lumbar puncture (lumbar puncture), H51.8 — Other specified disorders of binocular movement (oculogyric), H51.9 — Unspecified disorder of binocular movement (oculomotor), H53.10 — Unspecified subjective visual disturbances (vision, visual, subjective), H53.11 — Day blindness (vision, visual, subjective, day blindness), H53.12 — Transient visual loss (vision, visual, subjective, loss, transient), +186 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of F94.0 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.

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Hierarchy

Excludes2

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 · FY2027

Index entries

  • Disturbance (s), emotions specific to childhood and adolescence, with, elective mutism[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Mutism, elective (adjustment reaction) (childhood)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Mutism, selective (childhood)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Reaction, adjustment (anxiety) (conduct disorder) (depressiveness) (distress), with, mutism, elective (child) (adolescent)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027

Nearest codes

Change history

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

Reference

Index terms and tables, published questions and FAQ, every source behind this page with its release and checksum, the date-of-service check and the complete change history.

Indexed Clinical Terms (4)

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.

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 FY2027 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2026 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v44.0 (October 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 — v44 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-derived 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 editorial 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.

Current data releases:ICD-10-CM FY2027 · ICD-10-PCS FY2027 · HCPCS October 2026 · MS-DRG v44 · Medicare Code Editor v44.0 · NCCI PTP Q4 2026 · MUE Q4 2026 · NCD code lists 2026-01 · LCD export September 28, 2026 · All releases and sources

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MedCoder.ai. "F94.0 — Selective mutism." ICD-10-CM FY2027. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/f94.0-selective-mutism

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Selective mutism

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027, 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 F94.0 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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