Specific reading disorder
Billable / specific
F81.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- 'Backward reading'
- Developmental dyslexia
- Specific learning disorder, with impairment in reading
- Specific reading retardation
Includes (from F81)
- disorders of psychological development
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- 'Backward reading'
- Developmental dyslexia
- Specific learning disorder, with impairment in reading
- Specific reading retardation
- Alexia, developmental
- Backward reading
- Blindness, word
- Delay, delayed, development, reading
- Development, delayed, reading
- Difficult, difficulty, reading
- Disorder, developmental, learning, reading
- Disorder, developmental, reading
- Disorder, learning, reading
- Disorder, reading, developmental
- Disorder, specific, reading
- Dyslexia, developmental
- Mirror writing
- Retardation, reading
- Strephosymbolia
Parent code
- F81Specific developmental disorders of scholastic skillsHeader