Is R47.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R47.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R47.82 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 R47.82?

R47.82 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

R47.82

R47.82 — Fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R47.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

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

adult onset fluency disorder (F98.5)
childhood onset fluency disorder (F80.81)
fluency disorder (stuttering) following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -23)

Code first

The underlying condition must be sequenced before this code.

underlying disease or condition, such as:
Parkinson's disease (G20.-)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Stuttering in conditions classified elsewhere

Other codes that can never be billed with R47.82

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at R47.82. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading R47.82 alone.

F80.81Childhood onset fluency disorder
F98.5Adult onset fluency disorder

Risk adjustment

R47.82 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

R47.82 is named in 23 Medicare coverage policies — 23 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
A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
A54095Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders

How R47.82 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 R47.82.

Stuttering›in conditions classified elsewhere
Disorder›fluency›in conditions classified elsewhere

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R47.8. If R47.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R47.82

Is R47.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R47.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R47.82 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 R47.82?: R47.82 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.