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

categoryR47
Speech disturbances, not elsewhere classified
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chapterCH18
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
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Alphabetic 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
specified NECR47.8
Disturbance (s)1 unique routes
specified NECR47.8
Impediment, speech2 unique routes
specified NECR47.8
Direct index entryR47.8
Speech2 unique routes

MS-DRG Classification

2026

No direct MS-DRG triggers identified.

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