R46

The ICD-10-CM code for symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior is R46. The full clinical description is "Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior". R46 is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

ICD-10-CM code R46 represents “Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior”. It is classified under Chapter 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings and is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

No, R46 is a non-billable header code. You need to use one of its more specific child codes for billing. There are 9 child codes under R46.

R46 is in Chapter 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings (codes R00-R99).

R46 has Excludes1 notes indicating codes that cannot be used together with it, including: appearance and behavior in schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders (F20-F29); mental and behavioral disorders (F01-F99).

R46 has 9 child codes, including: R46.0 (Very low level of personal hygiene), R46.1 (Bizarre personal appearance), R46.2 (Strange and inexplicable behavior), R46.3 (Overactivity), and 5 more.

R46 is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C0476543. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) codes describe how conditions like symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior affect a person's functioning — body functions, activities, participation, and environmental factors. AutoICD provides ICF Core Sets for 12+ conditions and can map clinical text to ICF categories automatically. Browse the ICF directory to explore functioning codes.

R46 maps to the ICD-11 code: MB23.Z (Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behaviour, unspecified).