R47.81

R47.81: Slurred speech

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R47.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for slurred speech. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check R47.81 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R47.81

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R47.8: Other speech disturbances

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

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 R47.81

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

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

R47.81 is named in 32 Medicare coverage policies: 32 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
A54095Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Slurred, slurring speech
Impediment, speech›slurring
Speech›defect, disorder, disturbance, impediment›slurring

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.