Non-specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 295.3
Paranoid type schizophrenia
  • 2015
  • Non-Billable Code

  • There are 6 ICD-9-CM codes below 295.3 that define this diagnosis in greater detail. Do not use this code on a reimbursement claim.
Clinical Information
  • A chronic form of schizophrenia characterized primarily by the presence of persecutory or grandiose delusions, often associated with hallucination
  • A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by prominent delusions (typically persecutory or grandiose) or hallucinations in the context of a relative preservation of cognitive functioning and affect
  • Psychotic behavior accompanied simultaneously by persecutory or grandiose delusions (paranoia) and hallucinations (schizophrenia); delusional jealousy may be present
  • Type of schizophrenia characterized by grandiosity, suspiciousness, and delusions of persecution, often with hallucinations
295.3 Excludes
Applies To
  • Paraphrenic schizophrenia
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 295.3:
  • Dementia 294.20
    • paranoid (see also Schizophrenia) 295.3
    • paraphrenic (see also Schizophrenia) 295.3
  • Paranoid
    • dementia (see also Schizophrenia) 295.3
      • praecox (acute) 295.3
      • senile 290.20
    • schizophrenia (acute) (see also Schizophrenia) 295.3
  • Paraphrenia, paraphrenic (late) 297.2
    • dementia (see also Schizophrenia) 295.3
    • schizophrenia (acute) (see also Schizophrenia) 295.3
  • 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      • catatonic (excited) (withdrawn) 295.2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
  • Schizophrenia, schizophrenic (reaction) 295.9
    • paranoid (type) (acute) 295.3
    • paraphrenic (acute) 295.3
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