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Code: F41.8
Other specified anxiety disorders
Anxiety depression (mild or not persistent)
Anxiety hysteria
Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder
Parent Code Notes: F41
Excludes2: anxiety in:
acute stress reaction (F43.0)
transient adjustment reaction (F43.2)
neurasthenia (F48.8)
psychophysiologic disorders (F45.-)
separation anxiety (F93.0)

Category Notes
Anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders (F40-F48)

Coding Guidelines
Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99)
Includes: disorders of psychological development
Excludes 2: symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
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borncoder

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If the provider has listed anxiety/depression is it appropriate to use F41.8 other specified anxiety disorders?
 
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chaimz

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The provider must use a link word such as "With". Therefore the codes should be "F41.9" and "F32.9".
 
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