R46 - Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior
| ICD-10: | R46 |
| Short Description: | Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior |
| Long Description: | Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior |
| Status: | Not Valid for Submission |
| Version: | ICD-10-CM 2023 |
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R46 is a non-specific and non-billable ICD-10 code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior. The code is not specific and is NOT valid for the year 2023 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. Category or Header define the heading of a category of codes that may be further subdivided by the use of 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th characters.
According to ICD-10-CM guidelines this code should not to be used as a principal diagnosis code when a related definitive diagnosis has been established.
Specific Coding for Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior
Non-specific codes like R46 require more digits to indicate the appropriate level of specificity. Consider using any of the following ICD-10 codes with a higher level of specificity when coding for symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior:
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.0 for Very low level of personal hygiene
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.1 for Bizarre personal appearance
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.2 for Strange and inexplicable behavior
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.3 for Overactivity
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.4 for Slowness and poor responsiveness
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.5 for Suspiciousness and marked evasiveness
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.6 for Undue concern and preoccupation with stressful events
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.7 for Verbosity and circumstantial detail obscuring reason for contact
- NON-BILLABLE CODE - R46.8 for Other symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.81 for Obsessive-compulsive behavior
- BILLABLE CODE - Use R46.89 for Other symptoms and signs involving appearance and behavior
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to this diagnosis code:
Type 1 Excludes
Type 1 ExcludesA type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!" An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.
Code History
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
