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Specific code 2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 296.99
Other specified episodic mood disorder
  • Short description: Episodic mood disord NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 296.99 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 296.99 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2013 version of ICD-9-CM 296.99.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 296.99: 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 296.99 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM F34.8 Other persistent mood [affective] disorders
Approximate Synonyms
  • Agonistic behavior
  • Appropriate affect
  • Blunted affect
  • Blunting of mood
  • Complaining of feeling unhappy
  • Crying associated with mood
  • Cyclic mood swings
  • Dispiritment
  • Disturbance in mood
  • Diurnal variation of mood
  • Ecstasy
  • Elevated mood
  • Emotionally cold
  • Emotionally distant
  • Euphoria
  • Euthymic mood
  • Faddy behavior
  • Feeling a failure
  • Feeling abandoned
  • Feeling angry
  • Feeling emotionally hurt
  • Feeling mixed emotions
  • Feeling of discouragement
  • Flat affect
  • Hyperirritability
  • Hypomanic mood
  • Incongruity of mood
  • Indifference
  • Mood anorexia
  • Mood disorder
  • Mood disorder in full remission
  • Mood disorder with manic features due to general medical condition
  • Mood swing
  • Mood swings
  • Moody
  • Non-delusional perplexed mood
  • Overoptimism
  • Physiological disturbance associated with mood
  • Pleasurable affect
  • Rebound mood swings
  • Restricted affect
  • Right hemispheric organic affective disorder
  • Seasonal affective disorder
  • Seasonal variation of mood
  • Sensitivity
  • Severe mood disorder with psychotic features, mood-incongruent
  • Sublimation - mental defense mechanism
  • Temperamental
  • Unpleasurable affect
  • Unpredictable in mood
  • Variability of mood
  • Volatile Mood
Applies To
  • Mood swings:
    • brief compensatory
    • rebound
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 296.99:
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • mood (see also Disorder, bipolar) 296.90
      • alcohol-induced 291.89
      • episodic 296.90
        • specified NEC 296.99
      • in conditions classified elsewhere 293.83
  • Mood swings
    • brief compensatory 296.99
    • rebound 296.99
  • Psychosis 298.9
  • Reaction
    • affective (see also Psychosis, affective) 296.90
      • specified type NEC 296.99
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