R47.8

R47.8: Other speech disturbances

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

R47.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other speech disturbances. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

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

dysarthria following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -28)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R47.8

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 R47.8

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

F80.1Expressive language disorder
F80.2Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder
F80.81Childhood onset fluency 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 R47.8

3 child codes. Green means billable.