2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F20.2

Catatonic schizophrenia

  • F20.2 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
  • The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM F20.2 became effective on October 1, 2024.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of F20.2 – other international versions of ICD-10 F20.2 may differ.

Applicable To

  • Schizophrenic catalepsy
  • Schizophrenic catatonia
  • Schizophrenic flexibilitas cerea

Type 1 Excludes

  • catatonic stupor (R40.1)

The following code(s) above F20.2 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to F20.2:

  • F01-F99  Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • F20  Schizophrenia

Approximate Synonyms

  • Acute exacerbation of chronic catatonic schizophrenia
  • Acute exacerbation of subchronic catatonic schizophrenia
  • Catatonia
  • Catatonia, chronic with exacerbation
  • Chronic catatonic schizophrenia
  • Schizophrenia w catatonia
  • Schizophrenia with acute exacerbation
  • Schizophrenia, catatonic
  • Schizophrenia, catatonic, chronic
  • Schizophrenia, catatonic, subchronic
  • Subchronic catatonic schizophrenia

Clinical Information

  • A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by a psychomotor disturbance that may involve motoric immobility, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism or mutism, peculiarities of voluntary movement, echolalia, and/or echopraxia.
  • A type of schizophrenia characterized by abnormality of motor behavior which may involve particular forms of stupor, rigidity, excitement or inappropriate posture.

ICD-10-CM F20.2 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v42.0):

Convert F20.2 to ICD-9-CMCode History

  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
  • 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
  • 2025 (effective 10/1/2024): No change

Code annotations containing back-references to F20.2:

  • Type 1 Excludes: R40.1
  • Type 2 Excludes: F06.1

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to F20.2:

  • Catalepsy (hysterical) F44.2
    • schizophrenic F20.2
  • Catatonia F20.2 (schizophrenic)
  • Catatonic
    • schizophrenia F20.2
  • Schizophrenia, schizophrenicF20.9
    • catalepsy F20.2
    • catatonic F20.2 (type) (excited) (withdrawn)
    • flexibilitas cerea F20.2
    • stupor F20.2
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