Coding and coverage · ICD-10-CM

F80 › F80.8

F80.81 Childhood onset fluency disorder

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Instructional notes

Chapter 5

Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
Includes
  • disorders of psychological development

This code

Excludes1Not coded here: never report with this code, except when the two conditions are unrelated.
  • adult onset fluency disorder (F98.5)
  • fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere (R47.82)
  • fluency disorder (stuttering) following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -23)
Inclusion terms
  • Cluttering NOS
  • Stuttering NOS

Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders · F80-F89 Pervasive and specific developmental disorders (F80-F89)

Source: ICD-10-CM FY 2027 code descriptions and tabular list (CMS and CDC National Center for Health Statistics), effective 2026-10-01 through 2027-09-30 · CMS ICD-10 files. HCC mapping: CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2027. As of 2026-11-04.

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