F81.0

Specific reading disorder

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 3 never code together

Excludes1

Excludes2

symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)R00-R99

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 5

Inclusion terms

Includes

Index entries leading here 12

Alexia R48.0
- developmental F81.0
Backward reading (dyslexia) F81.0
Blindness (acquired) (congenital) (both eyes) H54.0X
- word (developmental) F81.0
Word
- blindness (congenital) (developmental) F81.0
Delay, delayed
- development R62.50
  - reading F81.0
Development
- delayed R62.50
  - reading F81.0
Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- developmental F89
  - reading F81.0
  - learning F81.9
    - reading F81.0
- reading R48.0
  - developmental (specific) F81.0
- specific
  - reading F81.0
- learning (specific) F81.9
  - specified
    - with impairment in
      - reading F81.0
  - reading F81.0
Dyslexia R48.0
- developmental F81.0
Difficult, difficulty (in)
- reading (developmental) F81.0
Mirror writing F81.0
Retardation
- reading (specific) F81.0
Strephosymbolia F81.0

Alongside this code 3 same parent — F81

Additional references

AHA Coding Clinic® Licence required

Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

Presence is a property of the code. Untick a model to hide it everywhere.

Present FY2024–FY2027.