F50 — Eating disorders

Not billable

Is F50 billable?

No — F50 is a non-billable header code. F50 groups more specific codes and cannot be submitted on a claim. A valid ICD-10-CM code must be reported at the highest level of specificity available in its branch. Select one of the 30 billable codes beneath F50.

Billable codes under this header

F50 at a glance

Code	F50
Description	Eating disorders
Billable	No — header code
Code set	ICD-10-CM FY2027
Valid for encounters	October 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027

Excludes1 — never code together

The conditions below can never be reported together with F50 on the same claim. An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient, so reporting both is a coding error.

anorexia NOS (R63.0)
feeding problems of newborn (P92.-)
polyphagia (R63.2)

Excludes2 — not included here

The conditions below are not part of F50, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, F50 and the excluded code may both be reported.

feeding difficulties (R63.3-)
feeding disorder in infancy or childhood (F98.2-)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from Chapter 5

The conditions below are not part of F50, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, F50 and the excluded code may both be reported.

symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

What codes fall under F50? (4)

How long has F50 existed?

F50 has been in ICD-10-CM since at least FY2016, the earliest fiscal year on record here.

Derived from the official order files for FY2016–FY2026. FY2017 and FY2020 publish no order file, so those years are not covered.

Which codes are confused with F50?

ICD-10-CM declares these codes mutually exclusive with F50 — exactly one of each pair can be correct for a given encounter.