F10.20
Alcohol dependence, uncomplicated
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 4 never code together
F10.2code
F01-F99chapter
Excludes2
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)R00-R99
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 4
Index entries leading here 9
- Addiction F19.20
- Alcohol, alcoholic, alcohol-induced
- addiction (without remission) F10.20
- Dependence (on) (syndrome) F19.20
- Alcoholism (chronic) (without remission) F10.20
- Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- alcohol use
- moderate or severe F10.20
- alcohol use
- Drunkenness (without dependence) F10.129
- chronic (without remission) F10.20
- Dipsomania F10.20
- Drinking (alcohol)
- Excess, excessive, excessively
Alongside this code 9 same parent — F10.2
F10.21 Alcohol dependence, in remission F10.22 Alcohol dependence with intoxication category F10.23 Alcohol dependence with withdrawal category F10.24 Alcohol dependence with alcohol-induced mood disorder F10.25 Alcohol dependence with alcohol-induced psychotic disorder category F10.26 Alcohol depend w alcoh-induce persisting amnestic disorder F10.27 Alcohol dependence with alcohol-induced persisting dementia F10.28 Alcohol dependence with other alcohol-induced disorders category F10.29 Alcohol dependence with unspecified alcohol-induced disorder
Additional references
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