R62.0 — Delayed milestone in childhood
R62.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for delayed milestone in childhood. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Delayed attainment of expected physiological developmental stage
- Late talker
- Late walker
Risk adjustment
R62.0 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
R62.0 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
- A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
- A56868Billing and Coding: Outpatient Speech Language Pathology
How R62.0 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 R62.0.
- Delay, delayed›milestone
- Late›talker
- Late›walker
- Delay, delayed›development›milestone
- Delay, delayed›development›physiological›specified stage NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share R62. If R62.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about R62.0
- Is R62.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. R62.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does R62.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block General symptoms and signs (R50-R69).