Diagnosis Code: V40.9

Short Description: Mental/behavior prob NOS

Long Description: Unspecified mental or behavioral problem

Code Classification:

• Supplementary classification of factors influencing health status and contact with health services (E)
  • Persons with a condition influencing their health status (V40-V49)
    • V40 Mental and behavioral problems
      • V40.9 Mental/behavior prob NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Behavioral disability
• Difficulty coming to terms with altered body image
• Infant behavior alteration
• Mental health impairment
• Mental health problem
• On examination - distressed
• Problem behavior in adult
• Regression through acting out
• Regression through actualizing
• Regression through enacting
• Regression through recapitulation
• Repressing thoughts
• Repression - mental defense mechanism
• Repression through forgetting

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code V40.9 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Disorder - see also Disease
  • emotional (see also Disorder, mental, nonpsychotic) V40.9

• Distress
  • emotional V40.9
  • mental V40.9

• Problem (with) V49.9
  • behavioral V40.9
    • specified NEC V40.39
  • mental V40.9
    • specified NEC V40.2
  • mental hygiene, adult V40.9

Crosswalk Information

The code V40.9 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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