R47.01

R47.01: Aphasia

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R47.01 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for aphasia. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check R47.01 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

aphasia following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -20)
progressive isolated aphasia (G31.01)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R47.01

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 R47.01

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

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

R47.01 is named in 28 Medicare coverage policies: 28 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A52866Billing and Coding: Speech-Language Pathology
A52992Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Cerebrovascular Arterial Studies
A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Aphasia(amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)
Dysnomia

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under R47.0

R47.02Dysphasia