Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Billable / specific
F98.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Excessive masturbation
- Nail-biting
- Nose-picking
- Thumb-sucking
Includes (from F98)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99) (from F98)
- breath-holding spells (R06.89) (from F98)
- gender identity disorder of childhood (F64.2) (from F98)
- Kleine-Levin syndrome (G47.13) (from F98)
- obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42.-) (from F98)
- sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F51.-) (from F98)
Also known as
- Excessive masturbation
- Nail-biting
- Nose-picking
- Thumb-sucking
- Attention, deficit disorder or syndrome
- Deficiency, deficient, attention
- Disorder, attention-deficit without hyperactivity
- Impediment, speech, psychogenic
- Masturbation
- Nail, biting
- Onanism
- Onychophagia
- Picking, nose
- Speech, defect, disorder, disturbance, impediment, psychogenic, in childhood and adolescence
- Sucking thumb, child
- Thumb, sucking
Parent code
- F98Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescenceHeader
Related codes
- F98.0Enuresis not due to a substance or known physiological conditionBillable
- F98.1Encopresis not due to a substance or known physiological conditionBillable
- F98.2Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhoodHeader
- F98.3Pica of infancy and childhoodBillable
- F98.4Stereotyped movement disordersBillable
- F98.5Adult onset fluency disorderBillable
- F98.9Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescenceBillable