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R47.89

Billable

Other speech disturbances

Other speech disturbances

Status

Billable / Specific

Block

R47-R49

Parent Code

R47.8

Coding Notes

Excludes 1

Codes that cannot be used together with this code (mutual exclusion)

Excludes 2

Conditions not included here, but the patient may have both

Related Codes(2)
R47.81

Slurred speech

BillableR47.82

Fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere

Billable
Also Known As / Clinical Terms(317)

SNOMED CT

UMLS

Clinical Terms

  • Does not use respiratory support for speech
  • Speech problem
  • Vocally disruptive behaviour
  • Embololalia
  • Difficulty using respiratory support for speech
  • Unable to use sounds in isolation
  • Articulation defect
  • Does not use blended sounds in speech
  • Limited enunciation
  • Verbalizes lack of understanding
  • Observation of intelligibility of articulation
  • Speech limited
  • Mirror speech
  • General finding of language and communication
  • Incoherent speech
  • Finding related to ability to use pulmonic airstream for speech
  • Paraphrasia
  • Unable to use respiratory support for speech
  • Hypertalkativity
  • Logorrhea
  • Articulation tract impairments
  • Difficulty using consonant vowel consonant combination
  • Difficulty using blended sounds
  • Difficulty using pragmatics in communication
  • Does not make movements for speech
  • Stock words
  • Aprosodic speech
  • Finding related to ability to produce voiceless sounds
  • Does not use multisyllabic words
  • Unable to use velaric airstream for speech
  • Pressured speech
  • Articulatory defect
  • Prolixity
  • Repetition of words
  • Finding related to ability to use velaric airstream for speech
  • Poverty of content of speech
  • Finding related to ability to use clicks in speech
  • Staccato speech
  • Facial grimacing
  • Oral dyspraxia
  • Difficulty using clicks in speech
  • Finding related to ability to use glottalic airstream for speech
  • Does not imitate speech sounds
  • Difficulty using consonant vowel consonant vowel combination
  • Poverty of speech
  • Volubility
  • Difficulty using multisyllabic words
  • Does not make speech sounds
  • Finding related to ability to use consonant vowel consonant combination
  • Pressure of speech
  • Unable to use blended sounds
  • Difficulty producing voiceless sounds
  • Difficulty imitating speech sounds
  • Explosive speech
  • Articulation tract difficulty
  • Finding related to ability to imitate speech sounds
  • Logorrhoea
  • Unable to use glottalic airstream for speech
  • Vocally disruptive behavior
  • Nasal and facial grimacing associated with speaking
  • Motor speech disorder
  • Disruptive vocalisation
  • Unable to use single vowels
  • Dyspraxia of velopharynx
  • Impairment of speech form
  • Does not use words
  • Vocalisation
  • Word salad
  • Lack of direction in speech
  • Scanning speech
  • Finding related to ability to use secondary articulation
  • Does not use the elements of language
  • Disturbance in speech rhythm
  • Embolophrasia
  • Foreign accent syndrome
  • Does not use semantics in communication
  • Repetitive speech
  • Unable to use single consonant
  • Does not use pulmonic airstream for speech
  • Difficulty making speech sounds
  • Difficulty using single vowels
  • Immature sound system
  • Vocalization
  • Rambling speech
  • Tongue tip dyspraxia
  • Difficulty using sounds in isolation
  • Repetition failure
  • Does not use glottalic airstream for speech
  • Difficulty using semantics in communication
  • Finding of intelligibility of articulation
  • Does not articulate words
  • Unable to use pulmonic airstream for speech
  • Finding related to ability to articulate words
  • Observation of clarity of speech
  • Velar dyspraxia
  • Final consonant deletion
  • Limited clarity of speech
  • Comprehension dysprosody
  • Disruptive behaviour
  • Unable to use clicks in speech
  • Oral-verbal dyspraxia
  • Nasal grimacing
  • Unable to make speech sounds
  • Embolalia
  • Difficulty using glottalic airstream for speech
  • Unable to use consonant vowel combination
  • Finding related to ability to make movements for speech
  • FAS - foreign accent syndrome
  • Does not use blended sounds
  • Impairment of voice production
  • Does not use velaric airstream for speech
  • Articulatory defect due to dental defect
  • Lack of fluency in speech
  • Verbalizes partial understanding
  • Difficulty using single consonant
  • Catalogia
  • General observations of language and communication
  • Difficulty using velaric airstream for speech
  • Does not use clicks in speech
  • Does not use consonant vowel consonant vowel combination
  • Does not articulate clearly
  • Does not use pragmatics in communication
  • Unable to imitate speech sounds
  • Unintelligible speech
  • Verbigeration
  • Finding related to ability to articulate clearly
  • Verbal repetition
  • Repetition of phrases
  • Finding related to ability to use words
  • Difficulty making movements for speech
  • Difficulty using the elements of language
  • Difficulty using words
  • Unintelligible articulation
  • Disruptive behavior
  • Difficulty using pulmonic airstream for speech
  • Compensatory phonatory substitution
  • Finding related to ability to use single vowels
  • Observation of intelligibility of speech
  • Unable to make movements for speech
  • Finding related to ability to use consonant vowel combination
  • Mimmation
  • Motor skill disorder
  • Speech block
  • Speech babble
  • Does not use secondary articulation
  • Incoherent articulation
  • Verbalizes no understanding
  • Specific speech impairment
  • Circumlocution
  • Verbal dyspraxia
  • Reduced intraoral pressure
  • Difficulty using consonant vowel combination
  • Motor dysprosody
  • Disruptive vocalization due to brain disease
  • Disruptive vocalization
  • Finding related to ability to use single consonant
  • Rambling language
  • Unable to use consonant vowel consonant combination
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the ICD-10 code for other speech disturbances?

The ICD-10-CM code for other speech disturbances is R47.89. The full clinical description is "Other speech disturbances". R47.89 is a billable/specific code that can be used on insurance claims and medical billing.

What does ICD-10 code R47.89 mean?

ICD-10-CM code R47.89 represents “Other speech disturbances”. It is classified under Chapter 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings and is a billable/specific code that can be used on a claim.

Is R47.89 a billable code?

Yes, R47.89 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code and can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a medical claim.

What chapter is R47.89 in?

R47.89 is in Chapter 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings (codes R00-R99).

What codes cannot be used with R47.89?

R47.89 has Excludes1 notes indicating codes that cannot be used together with it, including: autism (F84.0); cluttering (F80.81); specific developmental disorders of speech and language (F80.-); and 2 more.

What SNOMED CT codes does R47.89 map to?

R47.89 maps to 130 SNOMED CT concepts: 25623008, 70056008, 6051009, 19538009, 48364004, and 125 more. SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology used in electronic health records.

What are the UMLS CUIs for R47.89?

R47.89 is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C2712367. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

How does R47.89 relate to ICF functioning codes?

ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) codes describe how conditions like other speech disturbances 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.

What is the ICD-11 equivalent of R47.89?

There is no direct ICD-11 mapping available for R47.89 in the WHO crosswalk tables. This may mean the concept is classified differently in ICD-11. Use the ICD-10 to ICD-11 converter to search for related codes.

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Includes SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) used by permission of SNOMED International. Includes content from the UMLS Metathesaurus, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.