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R47

Speech disturbances, not elsewhere classified

Non-billableCategory

Chapter: 18. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Section: R47-R49 - Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice

Coding Guidelines

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with R47

  • F84.0 - autism (F84.0)
  • F80.81 - cluttering (F80.81)
  • specific developmental disorders of speech and language (F80.-)
  • F80.81 - stuttering (F80.81)

Specific Codes (4)

R47.0Category

Dysphasia and aphasia

R47.1Billable

Dysarthria and anarthria

R47.8Category

Other speech disturbances

R47.9Billable

Unspecified speech disturbances

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