- F81.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2024 edition of ICD-10-CM F81.0 became effective on October 1, 2022.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of F81.0 – other international versions of ICD-10 F81.0 may differ.
ICD-10-CM F81.0 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s):
- 886 Behavioral and developmental disorders
Applicable To
- ‘Backward reading’
- Developmental dyslexia
- Specific learning disorder, with impairment in reading
- Specific reading retardation
Type 1 Excludes
- alexia NOS (R48.0)
- dyslexia NOS (R48.0)
Code History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): No change
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to F81.0:
- developmental > Alexia R48.0
- word (developmental) > Blindness (acquired) (congenital) (both eyes) H54.0X-
- reading > development R62.50
- reading > delayed R62.50
- reading (developmental) > Difficult, difficulty (in)
- reading > learning F81.9
- reading > developmental F89
- reading > learning (specific) F81.9
- reading > with impairment in F81.2
- developmental (specific) > reading R48.0
- reading > specific F81.2
- developmental > Dyslexia R48.0
- reading (specific) > Retardation
- blindness (congenital) (developmental) > Word