2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F40.298

Other specified phobia

ICD-10-CM Code:
F40.298
ICD-10 Code for:
Other specified phobia
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
Chronic Condition Indicator: [1]
Chronic
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Code Classification

  • Mental and behavioural disorders
    (F01–F99)
    • Anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders
      (F40-F48)
      • Phobic anxiety disorders
        (F40)

F40.298 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other specified phobia. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Approximate Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

  • Algophobia
  • Bromhidrosiphobia
  • Cutaneous hypochondriasis
  • Cutaneous hypochondriasis
  • Cutaneous hypochondriasis
  • Cutaneous hypochondriasis
  • Erotic interest - finding
  • Erotophobia
  • Examination fear
  • Fear associated with illness and body function
  • Fear of abuse
  • Fear of activities in public
  • Fear of being left alone
  • Fear of being left alone during period of dependence
  • Fear of cancer of endocrine system
  • Fear of cancer of neurological system
  • Fear of cancer of respiratory system
  • Fear of cancer of urinary system
  • Fear of cardiovascular disease
  • Fear of choking
  • Fear of complications of pregnancy
  • Fear of contracting disease
  • Fear of contracting disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
  • Fear of contracting HIV infection
  • Fear of contracting radiation sickness
  • Fear of contracting sexually transmitted disease
  • Fear of deafness
  • Fear of death
  • Fear of disconnection from ventilator
  • Fear of drinking liquids due to dysphagia
  • Fear of ear disease
  • Fear of eating in public
  • Fear of endocrine disease
  • Fear of feathers
  • Fear of getting cancer
  • Fear of ghosts
  • Fear of going crazy
  • Fear of going out
  • Fear of having a heart attack
  • Fear of having cancer of digestive system
  • Fear of having digestive disease
  • Fear of having malignant neoplasm of lymphatic system
  • Fear of heart attack
  • Fear of heart disease
  • Fear of hematological cancer
  • Fear of hematological disease
  • Fear of hypertension
  • Fear of infection
  • Fear of losing control of bowels
  • Fear of losing control of bowels in public
  • Fear of mental disorder
  • Fear of metabolic disease
  • Fear of musculoskeletal cancer
  • Fear of musculoskeletal disease
  • Fear of needles
  • Fear of neurological disease
  • Fear of nutritional disease
  • Fear of pregnancy
  • Fear of reaction regarding family planning choices
  • Fear of respiratory disease
  • Fear of surgical masks
  • Fear of swallowing
  • Fear of sweating
  • Fear of the bogey man
  • Fear of urinary disease
  • Fear of wetting self
  • Fear of wetting self in public
  • Fear relating to body function
  • Heightened global phobia
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Microphobia
  • Noise phobia
  • Performance anxiety
  • Phobic fear of skin cancer
  • Phonophobia
  • Ponophobia
  • Primary tocophobia
  • Pyrophobia
  • Secondary tocophobia
  • Simple phobia
  • Syphilophobia
  • Taphophobia
  • Teratophobia
  • Theophobia
  • Tocophobia
  • Toxicophobia
  • Trichophobia
  • Venereophobia
  • Xenophobia

Clinical Classification

Clinical Information

  • Hypochondriasis

    preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. (apa, dsm-iv)
  • Performance Anxiety

    anxiety related to the execution of a task. (campbell's psychiatric dictionary, 9th ed.)
  • Xenophobia

    intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. it is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
  • Phonophobia

    a fear of sounds, which can include fear of voices, including one's own voice, in addition to other sounds.

Index to Diseases and Injuries References

The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).

Convert F40.298 to ICD-9-CM

  • ICD-9-CM Code: 300.29 - Isolated/spec phobia NEC
    Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.

Patient Education


Phobias

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no real danger.

There are many specific phobias. Acrophobia is a fear of heights. Agoraphobia is a fear of public places, and claustrophobia is a fear of closed-in places. If you become anxious and extremely self-conscious in everyday social situations, you could have a social phobia. Other common phobias involve tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, animals and blood.

People with phobias try to avoid what they are afraid of. If they cannot, they may experience:

  • Panic and fear
  • Rapid heartbeat
  • Shortness of breath
  • Trembling
  • A strong desire to get away

Phobias usually start in children or teens, and continue into adulthood. The causes of specific phobias are not known, but they sometimes run in families.

Treatment helps most people with phobias. Options include medicines, therapy or both.

NIH: National Institute of Mental Health


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Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.

Footnotes

[1] Chronic - a chronic condition code indicates a condition lasting 12 months or longer and its effect on the patient based on one or both of the following criteria:

  • The condition results in the need for ongoing intervention with medical products,treatment, services, and special equipment
  • The condition places limitations on self-care, independent living, and social interactions.