R47.8
Non-Billable
ChapterR00–R99
Ranksubcategory
Official Description
Other speech disturbances
Metadata & Insights
- •2026 ICD-10-CM Edition - Effective October 1, 2025.
- •Non-billable category (requires more specific sub-code).
- •Chapter 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings (R00-R99).
Instructional Notes
Excludes1(Not coded here)
General instructions are available for the parent sections:
Clinical Hierarchy
CH18Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
R47-R49Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice (R47-R49)
R47Speech disturbances, not elsewhere classified
R47.8Other speech disturbances
R47.81Slurred speech
R47.82Fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere
R47.89Other speech disturbances
Applicable Ancestor Context
The following parent sections contain instructions or notes that apply to R47.8:
chapterCH18
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
View context instructionsAlphabetic Index Mentions
These are Diagnosis Index lookup paths that route to R47.8. Use them as entry terms for search, then confirm final coding instructions in the Tabular List and notes above.
12 raw paths
Defect, defective1 unique routes
Disorder (of)2 unique routes
Disturbance (s)1 unique routes
Impediment, speech2 unique routes
Problem (with) (related to)2 unique routes
Slurred, slurring speech1 unique routes
Speech2 unique routes
defect, disorder, disturbance, impediment(2 variants)
Stuttering1 unique routes
MS-DRG Classification
No direct MS-DRG triggers identified.
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