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F98.5

Adult onset fluency disorder

Billable

Code Hierarchy

F98F98.5

Chapter: 5. Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders

Section: F90-F98 - Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

Coding Guidelines

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with F98.5

  • F80.81 - childhood onset fluency disorder (F80.81)
  • R47.02 - dysphasia (R47.02)
  • R47.82 - fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere (R47.82)
  • fluency disorder (stuttering) following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -23)
  • tic disorders (F95.-)

Related Codes

F98.0Billable

Enuresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition

F98.1Billable

Encopresis not due to a substance or known physiological condition

F98.2Category

Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood

F98.3Billable

Pica of infancy and childhood

F98.4Billable

Stereotyped movement disorders

F98.8Billable

Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

F98.9Billable

Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

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