Is R46.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R46.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R46.7 sit in the tabular list?

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46).

R46.7

R46.7 — Verbosity and circumstantial detail obscuring reason for contact

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R46.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for verbosity and circumstantial detail obscuring reason for contact. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

R46.7 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

R46.7 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

A57130Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Codes

How R46.7 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to R46.7.

Behavior›verbosity and circumstantial detail obscuring reason for contact

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R46. If R46.7 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R46.7

Is R46.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R46.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R46.7 sit in the tabular list?: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46).