308.9 ACUTE STRESS REACT NOS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 308.9

Short Description: Acute stress react NOS

Long Description: Unspecified acute reaction to stress

Code Classification:

  • Mental disorders (290–319)
    • Neurotic disorders, personality disorders, and other nonpsychotic mental disorders (300-316)
      • 308 Acute reaction to stress
        • 308.9 Acute stress react NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 308.9 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Battle exhaustion (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Combat fatigue (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Delirium, delirious 780.09
    • exhaustion (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Exhaustion, exhaustive (physical NEC) 780.79
    • battle (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
    • delirium (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
    • psychosis (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Fatigue 780.79
    • combat (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Psychosis 298.9
    • exhaustive (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Reaction
    • gross stress (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
    • stress, acute 308.9
      • with predominant disturbance (of)
        • consciousness 308.1
        • emotions 308.0
        • mixed 308.4
        • psychomotor 308.2
        • specified type NEC 308.3
      • bone or cartilage - see Fracture, stress
  • Shell
    • shock (current) (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
      • lasting state 300.16
  • Shock 785.50
    • nervous (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
    • psychic (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
      • past history (of) V15.49
    • psychogenic (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Stress 308.9
    • fracture - see Fracture, stress
    • polycythemia 289.0
    • reaction (gross) (see also Reaction, stress, acute) 308.9
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • shock (traumatic) 958.4
      • neurogenic 308.9
      • psychic 308.9

Crosswalk Information

The code 308.9 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
308.9 Right Arrow F43.0 Acute stress reaction
R45.7 State of emotional shock and stress, unspecified
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 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-9 Code ICD-9 Description
308.0 Predominant disturbance of emotions
308.1 Predominant disturbance of consciousness
308.2 Predominant psychomotor disturbance
308.3 Other acute reactions to stress
308.4 Mixed disorders as reaction to stress


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