9:46pm May 8, 2015

Autistic Catatonia

Progressive movement disorder that sometimes goes with autism, features of both Parkinson and catatonia among other movement disorders.

DSM-V code: 299.00 293.89.
ICD-10-CM code: F84.0 F06.1.

299.00 = Autism Spectrum Disorder
293.89 = Catatonia Due To A General Medical Condition

F84.0 = Autism, Autistic (Childhood, Infantile)
F06.1 = Catatonic Disorder Due To Known Physiological Condition

Just in case anyone else’s doctor wanted to know the way to code autistic catatonia under DSM-V or ICD-10-CM. You can change the first number to fit your diagnosis if you’ve been, say, diagnosed with atypical autism, which is F84.9 for instance under ICD criteria.

I got all the codes of the DSM-V criteria at the Autism $peaks website (which is all they’re good for really). I’ll be emailing them to my doctor who’s been asking for years how to code this.

ETA I messed up the DSM-V autism code so look at it again if you’re gonna use it. It’s 299.00 not 299.80. I’m apparently remembering my atypical autism days too vividly with the forms I had to fill out.

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