Diagnosis Code

F40.298 OTHER SPECIFIED PHOBIA


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: F40.298

Short Description: Other specified phobia

Long Description: Other specified phobia

The code F40.298 is VALID for claim submission

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 Other specified phobia

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • 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

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
F40.298 Right Arrow 300.29 Isolated/spec phobia NEC

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
F40 Phobic anxiety disorders
F40.0 Agoraphobia
F40.00 Agoraphobia, unspecified
F40.01 Agoraphobia with panic disorder
F40.02 Agoraphobia without panic disorder
F40.1 Social phobias
F40.10 Social phobia, unspecified
F40.11 Social phobia, generalized
F40.2 Specific (isolated) phobias
F40.21 Animal type phobia
F40.210 Arachnophobia
F40.218 Other animal type phobia
F40.22 Natural environment type phobia
F40.220 Fear of thunderstorms
F40.228 Other natural environment type phobia
F40.23 Blood, injection, injury type phobia
F40.230 Fear of blood
F40.231 Fear of injections and transfusions
F40.232 Fear of other medical care
F40.233 Fear of injury
F40.24 Situational type phobia
F40.240 Claustrophobia
F40.241 Acrophobia
F40.242 Fear of bridges
F40.243 Fear of flying
F40.248 Other situational type phobia
F40.29 Other specified phobia
F40.290 Androphobia
F40.291 Gynephobia
F40.8 Other phobic anxiety disorders
F40.9 Phobic anxiety disorder, unspecified


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023