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Category · FY2027

F80 Specific developmental disorders of speech and language

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F80 is not billable. The category heads 8 billable codes in FY2027, grouped under 6 subdivisions.

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Where it sits

  1. Chapter 5 Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99)
  2. F80-F89 Pervasive and specific developmental disorders (F80-F89)
  3. F80 Specific developmental disorders of speech and language
Billable codes
8
Subdivisions
6
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
55

Codes in F80

  1. F80.0
    Phonological disorder
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 7, Excludes1 2, Excludes2 4

    Inclusion terms

    • Dyslalia
    • Functional speech articulation disorder
    • Lalling
    • Lisping
    • Phonological developmental disorder
    • Speech articulation developmental disorder
    • Speech-sound disorder

    Excludes1

    • speech articulation impairment due to aphasia NOS (R47.01) R47.01
    • speech articulation impairment due to apraxia (R48.2) R48.2

    Excludes2

    • speech articulation impairment due to hearing loss (F80.4) F80.4
    • speech articulation impairment due to intellectual disabilities (F70-F79) F70 F79
    • speech articulation impairment with expressive language developmental disorder (F80.1) F80.1
    • speech articulation impairment with mixed receptive expressive language developmental disorder (F80.2) F80.2
  2. F80.1
    Expressive language disorder
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 2, Excludes2 4

    Inclusion terms

    • Developmental dysphasia or aphasia, expressive type

    Excludes1

    • mixed receptive-expressive language disorder (F80.2) F80.2
    • dysphasia and aphasia NOS (R47.-) R47

    Excludes2

    • acquired aphasia with epilepsy [Landau-Kleffner] (G40.80-) G40.80
    • selective mutism (F94.0) F94.0
    • intellectual disabilities (F70-F79) F70 F79
    • pervasive developmental disorders (F84.-) F84
  3. F80.2
    Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2, Excludes1 5, Excludes2 4

    Inclusion terms

    • Developmental dysphasia or aphasia, receptive type
    • Developmental Wernicke's aphasia

    Excludes1

    • central auditory processing disorder (H93.25) H93.25
    • dysphasia or aphasia NOS (R47.-) R47
    • expressive language disorder (F80.1) F80.1
    • expressive type dysphasia or aphasia (F80.1) F80.1
    • word deafness (H93.25) H93.25

    Excludes2

    • acquired aphasia with epilepsy [Landau-Kleffner] (G40.80-) G40.80
    • pervasive developmental disorders (F84.-) F84
    • selective mutism (F94.0) F94.0
    • intellectual disabilities (F70-F79) F70 F79
  4. F80.4
    Speech and language development delay due to hearing loss
    Billable
    Code also 1

    Code also

    • type of hearing loss (H90.-, H91.-) H90 H91
  5. F80.8
    Other developmental disorders of speech and language
    Header
  6. F80.81
    Childhood onset fluency disorder
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2, Excludes1 3

    Inclusion terms

    • Cluttering NOS
    • Stuttering NOS

    Excludes1

    • adult onset fluency disorder (F98.5) F98.5
    • fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere (R47.82) R47.82
    • fluency disorder (stuttering) following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -23) I69
  7. F80.82
    Social pragmatic communication disorder
    Billable
    Excludes1 2

    Excludes1

    • Asperger's syndrome (F84.5) F84.5
    • autistic disorder (F84.0) F84.0
  8. F80.89
    Other developmental disorders of speech and language
    Billable
  9. F80.9
    Developmental disorder of speech and language, unspecified
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Communication disorder NOS
    • Language disorder NOS

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Chapter 5 instructions (Includes 1, Excludes2 1): printed on the chapter 5 page.

Index entries

  • Dyslalia (developmental) → F80.0
  • Idioglossia → F80.0
  • Lalling → F80.0
  • Lisping → F80.0
  • Cluttering → F80.81
  • Stammering → F80.81
  • Stuttering → F80.81
  • Disorder (of)speech-sound → F80.0
  • Aphasia (amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)auditory (developmental) → F80.2
  • Aphasia (amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)developmental (receptive type) → F80.2
  • Aphasia (amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)sensory → F80.2
  • Aphasia (amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)Wernicke's (developmental) → F80.2
  • Disorder (of)receptive language → F80.2
  • Wernicke'sdevelopmental aphasia → F80.2
  • Stutteringchildhood onset → F80.81
  • Amusiadevelopmental → F80.89
  • Disorder (of)semantic pragmatic → F80.89
  • Disorder (of)communication → F80.9
  • Disorder (of)language (developmental) → F80.9
  • Problem (with) (related to)communication (developmental) → F80.9
  • Problem (with) (related to)language (developmental) → F80.9
  • Disorder (of)developmentalphonological → F80.0
  • Disorder (of)speecharticulation (functional) (specific) → F80.0
  • Aphasia (amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)developmental (receptive type)expressive type → F80.1
  • Developmentdelayedlanguage (skills) (expressive) → F80.1
  • Disorder (of)language (developmental)expressive → F80.1
  • Dysphasiadevelopmentalexpressive type → F80.1
  • Agnosia (body image) (other senses) (tactile)verbaldevelopmental → F80.2
  • Aphasia (amnestic) (global) (nominal) (semantic) (syntactic)developmental (receptive type)Wernicke's → F80.2
  • Disorder (of)language (developmental)mixed receptive and expressive → F80.2
  • Disorder (of)language (developmental)receptive → F80.2
  • Disorder (of)mixedreceptive expressive language → F80.2
  • Dysphasiadevelopmentalreceptive type → F80.2
  • Disorder (of)fluencychildhood onset → F80.81
  • Disorder (of)communicationsocial pragmatic → F80.82
  • Disorder (of)socialpragmatic → F80.82
  • Defect, defectivespeechdevelopmental → F80.9
  • Delay, delayeddevelopmentlanguage → F80.9
  • Delay, delayeddevelopmentspeech → F80.9
  • Developmentdelayedspeech → F80.9

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