F40.8

Other phobic anxiety disorders

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 1 never code together

F01-F99chapter

Excludes2

symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)R00-R99

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 2

F40.8code

Inclusion terms

Phobic anxiety disorder of childhood

F01-F99chapter

Includes

disorders of psychological development

Index entries leading here 2

Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- anxiety F41.9
  - phobic F40.9
    - of childhood F40.8
- phobic anxiety, childhood F40.8
Phobia, phobic F40.9
- specified NEC F40.8

Alongside this code 4 same parent — F40

F40.0 Agoraphobia category F40.1 Social phobias category F40.2 Specific (isolated) phobias category F40.9 Phobic anxiety disorder, unspecified

Medications 2

104 Anxiety Disorders drugs 8 Phobic Disorders drugs

MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.

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This code

Billable: yes
Code set: FY2026
Parent: F40
Block: F40-F48
Siblings: 4

Present FY2024–FY2027.

F40.8

Risk adjustment

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