Slowness and poor responsiveness

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Slowness and poor responsiveness

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.

Inherited from R46 Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior

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)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Behavior > slowness
Behavior > poor responsiveness

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
R46.0	Very low level of personal hygiene	Valid
R46.1	Bizarre personal appearance	Valid
R46.2	Strange and inexplicable behavior	Valid
R46.3	Overactivity	Valid
R46.5	Suspiciousness and marked evasiveness	Valid
R46.6	Undue concern and preoccupation with stressful events	Valid
R46.7	Verbosity and circumstantial detail obscuring reason for contact	Valid
R46.8	Other symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior	Not billable