R47.01 — Aphasia
R47.01 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for aphasia. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Other codes that can never be billed with R47.01
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at R47.01. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading R47.01 alone.
- F80.0Phonological disorder
Risk adjustment
R47.01 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
R47.01 is named in 29 Medicare coverage policies — 29 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52866Billing and Coding: Speech-Language Pathology
- A52992Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Cerebrovascular Arterial Studies
- A52992Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Cerebrovascular Arterial Studies
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
How R47.01 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 R47.01.
- Aphasia(amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)
- Dysnomia
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R47.0. If R47.01 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R47.01
- Is R47.01 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R47.01 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R47.01 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 speech and voice (R47-R49).
- What cannot be coded together with R47.01?
- R47.01 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.