F81.0
Specific reading disorder
Billable code
This code does not map to a risk-adjusting HCC in the loaded models.
Coding notes
Excludes 1 never coded together · Excludes 2 may co-exist
This code · F81.0
Inherited from chapter 5Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders
Includes
disorders of psychological development
Excludes 2
symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
Official Guidelines for F81.0
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17 index paths lead to this code
- Backward reading
- Mirror writing
- Strephosymbolia
- Alexia › developmental
- Blindness › word
- Difficult, difficulty › reading
- Dyslexia › developmental
- Retardation › reading
- Word › blindness
- Delay, delayed › development › reading
- Development › delayed › reading
- Disorder › developmental › reading
- Disorder › learning › reading
- Disorder › reading › developmental
- Disorder › specific › reading
- Disorder › developmental › learning › reading
- Disorder › learning › specified › with impairment in › reading