T43.6Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of psychostimulants

T43.6 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of psychostimulants. It belongs to category T43 (poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of psychotropic drugs, not elsewhere classified), block T36-T50 (poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances) and chapter 19 (injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 7 subcodes must be used instead.

Within T43 (poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of psychotropic drugs, not elsewhere classified), T43.6 is specifically for poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of psychostimulants. Related codes cover tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants (T43.0), monoamine-oxidase-inhibitor antidepressants (T43.1), other and unspecified antidepressants (T43.2), phenothiazine antipsychotics and neuroleptics (T43.3), butyrophenone and thiothixene neuroleptics (T43.4), other and unspecified antipsychotics and neuroleptics (T43.5), other psychotropic drugs (T43.8) and unspecified psychotropic drug (T43.9).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

Don't report T43.6 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of cocaine (T40.5-).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.