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F98.8

Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 6 never code together
F98code
Excludes2
  • breath-holding spells (R06.89)R06.89
  • gender identity disorder of childhood (F64.2)F64.2
  • Kleine-Levin syndrome (G47.13)G47.13
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42.-)F42.-
  • sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F51.-)F51.-
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 6
F98.8code
Inclusion terms
  • Excessive masturbation
  • Nail-biting
  • Nose-picking
  • Thumb-sucking
F90-F98block
Notes
  • Codes within categories F90-F98 may be used regardless of the age of a patient. These disorders generally have onset within the childhood or adolescent years, but may continue throughout life or not be diagnosed until adulthoodF90-F98
F01-F99chapter
Includes
  • disorders of psychological development
Index entries leading here 13
  • Disorder (of) — see also Disease
    • attention-deficit without hyperactivity (adolescent) (adult) (child) F98.8
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • attention (disorder) (syndrome) F98.8
  • Attention (to)
    • deficit disorder or syndrome F98.8
  • Nail — see also condition
  • Speech
    • defect, disorder, disturbance, impediment R47.9
      • psychogenic, in childhood and adolescence F98.8
  • Impediment, speech R47.9
    • psychogenic (childhood) F98.8
  • Masturbation (excessive) F98.8
  • Nose-picking F98.8
  • Onanism (excessive) F98.8
  • Onychophagia F98.8
  • Picking, nose F98.8
  • Thumb — see also condition
    • sucking (child problem) F98.8
  • Sucking thumb, child (excessive) F98.8
Alongside this code 7 same parent — F98
Medications 4

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
F98
Block
F90-F98
Siblings
7

Present FY2024–FY2027.