F81.9

Developmental disorder of scholastic skills, unspecified

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

This is the unspecified option. 3 more specific codes sit alongside it. Worth checking whether the documentation supports one of them.

Exclusions 1 never code together

Excludes2

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

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

Instructional notes 4

Inclusion terms

Includes

Index entries leading here 6

Delay, delayed
- development R62.50
  - intellectual (specific) F81.9
  - learning F81.9
Development
- delayed R62.50
  - learning skill F81.9
Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- developmental F89
  - learning F81.9
- learning (specific) F81.9
- psychogenic NOS F45.9
  - learning F81.9
Disability, disabilities
- learning F81.9
- knowledge acquisition F81.9
Learning defect (specific) F81.9
Problem (with) (related to)
- learning (developmental) F81.9

Alongside this code 3 same parent — F81

Additional references

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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.