F63.2
BillableKleptomania
HCC Category Mapping
RxHCCHCC 133 — Personality Disorders, Anxiety, and Other Specified Mental Disorders
0.000What This Code Means
A recurrent inability to resist the urge to steal items, typically not needed for personal use or monetary value, driven by tension and relief.
Coding Tips
- •Confirm the stealing is not attributable to conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, or manic episodes
- •Document the pattern of recurrent theft and associated tension-relief cycle
Clinical Significance
Kleptomania is an impulse control disorder characterized by recurrent failure to resist urges to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or monetary value. It is associated with significant shame, legal consequences, and comorbid mood disorders, anxiety, eating disorders, and substance abuse. Accurate diagnosis differentiates it from ordinary theft and informs appropriate psychiatric treatment.
Documentation Requirements
- ✓Provider documentation of recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects not needed for personal use or their monetary value
- ✓Evidence of increasing tension immediately before committing the theft and pleasure or relief at the time of the act
- ✓Documentation that stealing is not committed to express anger, vengeance, or as part of conduct disorder or antisocial personality disorder
- ✓Exclusion of stealing during psychotic episodes or due to impaired judgment from substance use
- ✓Psychiatric evaluation and treatment plan
Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together
- shoplifting as the reason for observation for suspected mental disorder (Z03.8)
Excludes 2 — Not included here, may code separately
Commonly Confused Codes
Z72.810 — Child and adolescent antisocial behavior; stealing as part of antisocial behavior is not kleptomaniaF60.2 — Antisocial personality disorder; stealing as part of a broader antisocial pattern is personality disorder, not kleptomaniaF91.x — Conduct disorders; repetitive theft in youth as part of conduct problems uses conduct disorder codesF63.9 — Impulse disorder, unspecified; use F63.2 specifically when kleptomania is documented