Non-specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 295.4
Schizophreniform disorder
  • 2015
  • Non-Billable Code

  • There are 6 ICD-9-CM codes below 295.4 that define this diagnosis in greater detail. Do not use this code on a reimbursement claim.
Clinical Information
  • A disorder that differs from schizophrenia specifically in total duration (schizophreniform disorder lasts at least 1 month but less than 6 months whereas schizophrenia lasts at least 6 months); schizophreniform disorder also typically causes less impairment in the individual's social and occupational functioning
295.4 Excludes
  • acute forms of schizophrenia of:
Applies To
  • Oneirophrenia
  • Schizophreniform:
    • attack
    • psychosis, confusional type
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 295.4:
  • Attack
    • schizophreniform (see also Schizophrenia) 295.4
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • schizophreniform 295.4
  • Episode
    • schizophrenic (acute) NEC (see also Schizophrenia) 295.4
  • Oneirophrenia (see also Schizophrenia) 295.4
  • Psychosis 298.9
    • schizophrenia, schizophrenic (see also Schizophrenia) 295.9
      • borderline type 295.5
        • of childhood (see also Psychosis, childhood) 299.8
      • catatonic (excited) (withdrawn) 295.2
      • childhood type (see also Psychosis, childhood) 299.9
      • hebephrenic 295.1
      • incipient 295.5
      • latent 295.5
      • paranoid 295.3
      • prepsychotic 295.5
      • prodromal 295.5
      • pseudoneurotic 295.5
      • pseudopsychopathic 295.5
      • schizophreniform 295.4
      • simple 295.0
      • undifferentiated type 295.9
    • schizophreniform 295.4
  • Schizophrenia, schizophrenic (reaction) 295.9
    • acute (attack) NEC 295.8
      • episode 295.4
    • schizophreniform type 295.4
  • State
    • oneiroid (see also Schizophrenia) 295.4
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