Scope Health
Scope Health
Back to Scope Health

R47.8

Other speech disturbances

Non-billableCategory

Code Hierarchy

R47R47.8

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 R47.8

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

Specific Codes (3)

R47.81Billable

Slurred speech

R47.82Billable

Fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere

R47.89Billable

Other speech disturbances

Related Codes

R47.0Category

Dysphasia and aphasia

R47.1Billable

Dysarthria and anarthria

R47.9Billable

Unspecified speech disturbances

Get started with Scope today

Spend more time caring for patients, not charting. Scope captures your patient encounters in real time and quickly generates high-quality clinical notes – and it's completely free.

AnneLisaDavid
1k+

from 1k+ happy clinicians

Get started now