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R46

Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:

  • R46.0 Very low level of personal hygiene
  • R46.1 Bizarre personal appearance
  • R46.2 Strange and inexplicable behavior
  • R46.3 Overactivity
  • R46.4 Slowness and poor responsiveness
  • R46.5 Suspiciousness and marked evasiveness
  • R46.6 Undue concern and preoccupation with stressful events
  • R46.7 Verbosity and circumstantial detail obscuring reason for contact
  • R46.8 Other symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • appearance and behavior in schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders (F20-F29)
  • mental and behavioral disorders (F01-F99)

Inherited from the R40-R46 section Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • symptoms and signs constituting part of a pattern of mental disorder (F01-F99)