Phobic anxiety disorders (F40)

Browse all the diagnosis codes used for phobic anxiety disorders (f40). For easy navigation, the diagnosis codes are sorted in alphabetical order and grouped by sections. Each section is clearly marked with its description, and the corresponding three-digit code range. This format makes it simple to browse diagnosis codes in this chapter or section and find what you're looking for. We've also added green checkmark icons to label billable codes, and red warning icons for non-billable ones. This makes it easy to identify which codes can be billed.

Clinical Information

Agoraphobia - Obsessive, persistent, intense fear of places or situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing.

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.