F81.0
F81.0: Specific reading disorder
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
F81.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for specific reading disorder. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check F81.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- 'Backward reading'
- Developmental dyslexia
- Specific learning disorder, with impairment in reading
- Specific reading retardation
Other codes that can never be billed with F81.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- R48Dyslexia and other symbolic dysfunctions, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
F81.0 is named in 16 Medicare coverage policies: 14 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 2 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52434Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention – Medical Policy Articlenot covered
- A56865Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalizationnot covered
- A52866Billing and Coding: Speech-Language Pathology
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Backward reading(dyslexia)
- Mirror writing
- Strephosymbolia
- Alexia›developmental
- Blindness›word(developmental)
- Difficult, difficulty›reading(developmental)
- Dyslexia›developmental
- Retardation›reading(specific)
- Word›blindness(congenital) (developmental)
- Delay, delayed›development›reading
- Development›delayed›reading
- Disorder›developmental›reading
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.