F53Mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified

F53 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified. It belongs to block F50-F59 (behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors) and chapter 5 (mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 2 subcodes must be used instead.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: F53.0 (depression) and F53.1 (psychosis).

Don't report F53 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: mood disorders with psychotic features (F30.2, F31.2, F31.5, F31.64, F32.3, F33.3), postpartum dysphoria (O90.6) and psychosis in schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional, and other psychotic disorders (F20-F29).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015, and changed in FY2019 (title revised).

Before ICD-10, this condition was coded in ICD-9-CM as 293.89 (other specified transient mental disorders due to conditions classified elsewhere, other).