F98.8 Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026.

Applicable to

• Excessive masturbation
• Nail-biting
• Nose-picking
• Thumb-sucking

Applies from F98 Other behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

Excludes2 (not included here)

• breath-holding spells (R06.89)
• gender identity disorder of childhood (F64.2)
• Kleine-Levin syndrome (G47.13)
• obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42.-)
• sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F51.-)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 886 in MDC 19.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 313.89 Other emotional disturbances of childhood or adolescence (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to F98.8

Back-references to F98.8

• Type 1 Excludes: F42.4 Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder ("other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in early childhood and adolescence (F98.8)")
• Type 2 Excludes: F45 Somatoform disorders ("nail-biting (F98.8)")
• Type 2 Excludes: F45 Somatoform disorders ("thumb-sucking (F98.8)")
• Type 2 Excludes: F98.4 Stereotyped movement disorders ("nail-biting (F98.8)")
• Type 2 Excludes: F98.4 Stereotyped movement disorders ("nose-picking (F98.8)")
• Type 2 Excludes: F98.4 Stereotyped movement disorders ("thumb-sucking (F98.8)")

Diagnosis Index entries for F98.8

• Attention (to) › deficit disorder or syndrome
• Deficiency, deficient › attention (disorder) (syndrome)
• Disorder (of) › attention-deficit without hyperactivity (adolescent) (adult) (child)
• Impediment, speech › psychogenic (childhood)
• Masturbation (excessive)
• Nail › biting
• Nose-picking
• Onanism (excessive)
• Onychophagia
• Picking, nose
• Speech › defect, disorder, disturbance, impediment › psychogenic, in childhood and adolescence
• Sucking thumb, child (excessive)
• Thumb › sucking (child problem)

Nearby codes

• F98.21 Rumination disorder of infancy and childhood
• F98.29 Other feeding disorders of infancy and early childhood
• F98.3 Pica of infancy and childhood
• F98.4 Stereotyped movement disorders
• F98.5 Adult onset fluency disorder
• F98.8 Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence (this code)
• F98.9 Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence