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2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F88

Other disorders of psychological development

ICD-10-CM Code:
F88
ICD-10 Code for:
Other disorders of psychological development
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
Chronic Condition Indicator: [1]
Not chronic
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F88 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other disorders of psychological development. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

Code Classification

  • Mental and behavioural disorders
    F01–F99
    • Pervasive and specific developmental disorders
      F80-F89
      • Other disorders of psychological development
        F88

Approximate Synonyms

The following list of clinical terms are approximate synonyms, alternative descriptions, or common phrases that might be used by patients, healthcare providers, or medical coders to describe the same condition. These synonyms and related diagnosis terms are often used when searching for an ICD-10 code, especially when the exact medical terminology is unclear. Whether you're looking for lay terms, similar diagnosis names, or common language alternatives, this list can help guide you to the correct ICD-10 classification.

  • Autistic disorder of childhood onset
  • Brachydactyly of hand
  • Congenital cataract, severe neonatal hepatopathy, global developmental delay syndrome
  • Congenital radioulnar synostosis
  • Constitutional aplastic anemia
  • Developmental agnosia
  • Developmental delay due to methylmalonate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency
  • Developmental delay with autism spectrum disorder and gait instability
  • Developmental delay, facial dysmorphism syndrome due to MED13L deficiency
  • Developmental regression
  • Disorder of ornithine metabolism
  • Dysplasia with defective mineralization
  • Early-onset obesity, hyperphagia, severe developmental delay syndrome
  • Early-onset seizures, distal limb anomalies, facial dysmorphism, global developmental delay syndrome
  • Excessive eating
  • Finding of quantity of eating
  • Global developmental delay
  • Global developmental delay, alopecia, macrocephaly, facial dysmorphism, structural brain anomalies syndrome
  • Global developmental delay, lung cysts, overgrowth, Wilms tumor syndrome
  • Global developmental delay, neuro-ophthalmological abnormalities, seizures, intellectual disability syndrome
  • Global developmental delay, osteopenia, ectodermal defect syndrome
  • Global developmental delay, visual anomalies, progressive cerebellar atrophy, truncal hypotonia syndrome
  • Growth retardation, mild developmental delay, chronic hepatitis syndrome
  • Hereditary cerebellar atrophy
  • Hereditary cerebellar atrophy
  • Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy with deafness and global delay
  • Infantile hypotonia, oculomotor anomalies, hyperkinetic movements, developmental delay syndrome
  • Inherited disorder of folate metabolism
  • Intellectual disability, feeding difficulties, developmental delay, microcephaly syndrome
  • IRF2BPL-related regressive neurodevelopmental disorder, dystonia, seizures syndrome
  • Mixed developmental disorder
  • Mixed disorder of psychological development
  • MTHFS-related developmental delay, microcephaly, short stature, epilepsy syndrome
  • Nephroblastoma
  • Neurodevelopmental delay, seizures, ophthalmic anomalies, osteopenia, cerebellar atrophy syndrome
  • NRXN1-related severe neurodevelopmental disorder, motor stereotypies, chronic constipation, sleep-wake cycle disturbance
  • Optic atrophy, ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, global developmental delay syndrome
  • Ossification anomaly with psychomotor developmental delay syndrome
  • Pancytopenia with developmental delay syndrome
  • Pierpont syndrome
  • PLAA-associated neurodevelopmental disorder
  • Radioulnar synostosis with developmental delay and hypotonia syndrome
  • Severe obesity
  • Short stature, brachydactyly, obesity, global developmental delay syndrome
  • THOC6-related developmental delay-microcephaly-facial dysmorphism syndrome
  • TMEM94-associated congenital heart defect, facial dysmorphism, developmental delay syndrome
  • X-linked intellectual disability, global development delay, facial dysmorphism, sacral caudal remnant syndrome

Clinical Classification

Clinical Classifications group individual ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes into broader, clinically meaningful categories. These categories help simplify complex data by organizing related conditions under common clinical themes.

They are especially useful for data analysis, reporting, and clinical decision-making. Even when diagnosis codes differ, similar conditions can be grouped together based on their clinical relevance. Each category is assigned a unique CCSR code that represents a specific clinical concept, often tied to a body system or medical specialty.

Neurodevelopmental disorders

CCSR Code: MBD014

Inpatient Default: Y - Yes, default inpatient assignment for principal diagnosis or first-listed diagnosis.

Outpatient Default: Y - Yes, default outpatient assignment for principal diagnosis or first-listed diagnosis.

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The following annotation back-references are applicable to this diagnosis code. The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10-CM codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more.


Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
  • Developmental agnosia
  • Global developmental delay
  • Other specified neurodevelopmental disorder

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 F88 to ICD-9-CM

Below are the ICD-9 codes that most closely match this ICD-10 code, based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs). This ICD-10 to ICD-9 crosswalk tool is helpful for coders who need to reference legacy diagnosis codes for audits, historical claims, or approximate code comparisons.

Development delays NEC

ICD-9-CM: 315.8

Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means this ICD-10 code does not have an exact ICD-9 equivalent. The matched code is the closest available option, but it may not fully capture the original diagnosis or clinical intent.

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Patient Education


Developmental Disabilities

Developmental disabilities are severe, long-term problems. They may be physical, such as blindness. They may affect mental ability, such as learning disabilities. Or the problem can be both physical and mental, such as Down syndrome. The problems are usually life-long, and can affect everyday living.

There are many causes of developmental disabilities, including:

  • Genetic or chromosome abnormalities. These cause conditions such as Down syndrome and Rett syndrome.
  • Prenatal exposure to substances. For example, drinking alcohol when pregnant can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
  • Certain infections in pregnancy
  • Preterm birth

Often there is no cure, but treatment can help the symptoms. Treatments include physical, speech, and occupational therapy. Special education classes and psychological counseling can also help.

NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development


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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] Not chronic - A diagnosis code that does not fit the criteria for chronic condition (duration, ongoing medical treatment, and limitations) is considered not chronic. Some codes designated as not chronic are acute conditions. Other diagnosis codes that indicate a possible chronic condition, but for which the duration of the illness is not specified in the code description (i.e., we do not know the condition has lasted 12 months or longer) also are considered not chronic.