Autism Spectrum Disorder ICD-10-CM Codes
Read this short guide to learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder ICD codes you can use.
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What Autism Spectrum Disorder ICD codes can I use?
If you’re looking for Autism Spectrum Disorder ICD codes, only one is meant for it, and that’s F84.0 - Autistic disorder. This is intended to be used on young or old patients confirmed to have Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Please note that there are no medical tests for diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder, so you must conduct several assessments, compile the results, and cross-check everything with the ASD criteria of the most recent edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
It’s best to conduct several assessments before a diagnosis because many symptoms, hence the Spectrum characterize ASD.
Is this lone Autism Spectrum Disorder ICD code billable?
Yes. This lone Autism Spectrum Disorder-related ICD-10 code is valid and billable.
Clinical Information
Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD for short, is a neurodevelopmental disorder. This disorder impacts a person’s sensory processing, behavior, and capability to communicate with others.
It’s a complex disorder with no designated medical tests, so specialists who diagnose it will conduct interviews and multiple assessments to get enough information about a person and cross-check it with The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Based on research, Autism Spectrum Disorder develops early, and its symptoms tend to manifest between ages 1 to 3. Given this, it’s always best to check children for ASD as soon as possible so that their ASD symptoms can be managed early. That way, it becomes possible for the child to grow up without their ASD hindering their daily lives.
Synonyms Include:
- Active infantile autism
- Autism spectrum disorder, epilepsy, arthrogryposis syndrome
- Autistic disorder of childhood onset
- High-functioning autism
- Residual infantile autism
- Autism and facial port-wine stain syndrome
- Autism epilepsy syndrome due to branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase kinase deficiency
Commonly asked questions
Healthcare professionals who specialize in assessing, diagnosing, and treating ASD will look at the following: if the person has trouble communicating with others and if they can understand non-verbal communication, if they have difficulty establishing relationships, if they have problem with language, if there is an intense obsession for their interests whether “normal” or “unusual,” if they react strangely or have an aversion to certain noises and other sensory stimuli if they don’t take change well, and if they have repetitive behaviors.
They should tell parents to monitor their children for the following:
- If they don’t look at the parents when called by name
- If they don’t make any joyful expressions by the age of 6 months
- If they don’t smile, make sounds, or make faces by the period of 9 months
- If they don’t babble by the time they are one year old
- If they don’t know how to make gestures like waving by the time they are one year old
- If they don’t say any words when they’re already 16 months old
- If they can’t know phrases by the time they are two years old
This means that the person has a mild form of Autism Spectrum Disorder. High-functioning autistics can speak, read, write, and perform tasks without support.
