R47.0

R47.0: Dysphasia and aphasia

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

R47.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for dysphasia and aphasia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R47.0

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R47: Speech disturbances, not elsewhere classified

autism (F84.0)
cluttering (F80.81)
specific developmental disorders of speech and language (F80.-)
stuttering (F80.81)

Other codes that can never be billed with R47.0

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

F80.0Phonological disorder
F80.1Expressive language disorder
F80.2Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder
F98.5Adult onset fluency disorder

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead R47.0

2 child codes. Green means billable.

R47.01Aphasia
R47.02Dysphasia

Other codes under R47

R47.1Dysarthria and anarthria
R47.8Other speech disturbances
R47.9Unspecified speech disturbances