F41.0 is panic disorder, and it is billable as written. The trap is agoraphobia. If the documentation establishes panic disorder with agoraphobia, the correct code is F40.01, not F41.0 — and ICD-10-CM marks these as an Excludes1 pair, meaning they are never reported together on the same claim. Coding both is a rejection, not a redundancy. Below: the table, the agoraphobia split, and the CPT pairings.
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| Code | F41.0 |
|---|---|
| Official ICD-10-CM title | Panic disorder [episodic paroxysmal anxiety] |
| Billable? | Yes — a specific code, valid for submission |
| Category | F41 — Other anxiety disorders |
| Chapter | F01–F99, Mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders |
This is the part that costs practices money. ICD-10-CM puts panic disorder in two different places depending on whether agoraphobia is present:
| Code | Title | Billable? |
|---|---|---|
| F41.0 | Panic disorder [episodic paroxysmal anxiety] | Yes |
| F40.01 | Agoraphobia with panic disorder | Yes |
| F40.02 | Agoraphobia without panic disorder | Yes |
| F40.00 | Agoraphobia, unspecified | Yes |
ICD-10-CM records “panic disorder with agoraphobia (F40.01)” as an Excludes1 under F41.0. An Excludes1 is the strong form: the two conditions are mutually exclusive as coded, and a claim carrying both is not just imprecise, it is contradictory. If agoraphobia is documented, F40.01 replaces F41.0 rather than joining it.
ICD-10-CM lists panic attack and panic state as inclusion terms under F41.0. There is no distinct code for a panic attack occurring on its own. A documented panic attack without panic disorder is usually better served by the code for the condition it arises in — and where an anxiety presentation genuinely does not meet criteria for any specific disorder, F41.9 is the honest code rather than F41.0.
DSM-5 made a change ICD-10-CM mirrors. DSM-IV treated panic disorder with and without agoraphobia as specifiers of a single diagnosis; DSM-5 separated them into two independent diagnoses, panic disorder and agoraphobia, each of which can be diagnosed alone or alongside the other. DSM-5-TR prints F41.0 beside panic disorder and F40.00 beside agoraphobia.
That creates a mismatch worth understanding. Under DSM-5 a clinician may legitimately diagnose both panic disorder and agoraphobia in the same patient — but ICD-10-CM's Excludes1 means the claim cannot carry F41.0 and F40.01 together. The combined presentation is coded F40.01, which is the single code that already expresses both.
| CPT | Service | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation (no medical services) | — |
| 90832 | Individual psychotherapy | 16–37 minutes |
| 90834 | Individual psychotherapy | 38–52 minutes |
| 90837 | Individual psychotherapy | 53 minutes or more |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy, patient present | 50 minutes typical |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy | — |
A 50-minute session is 90834, not 90837 — 90837 begins at 53 minutes. CMS also sets a floor: psychotherapy under 16 minutes is not reported with these codes at all.
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Yes. F41.0 is a specific code and valid for submission. F41 on its own is a category header and is not.
F41.0, panic disorder [episodic paroxysmal anxiety]. If agoraphobia is also documented, the code is F40.01 instead.
No. ICD-10-CM lists them as an Excludes1 pair, which means they are never reported together. When agoraphobia is present, F40.01 replaces F41.0.
Not a separate one. Panic attack and panic state are inclusion terms under F41.0 itself, so there is no distinct code to move to.
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