F80-F89 — Pervasive and specific developmental disorders
Every ICD-10-CM code in this range and the PDGM clinical group CMS assigns to it, read from the CMS grouper crosswalk v07.1.26.
Codes in range
22
No clinical group
8
A period cannot be grouped from these.
Barred as primary
0
CMS rejects these in the primary position.
Where these codes group
14 of the 22 codes in F80-F89 group to Behavioral Health. A further 8 are assigned no clinical group at all, which means a 30-day period cannot be grouped from them.
Every code in F80-F89
Descriptions are CMS’s own, abbreviated as CMS abbreviates them.
| Code | Description | Clinical group | Primary position |
|---|---|---|---|
| F800 | Phonological disorder | F | Accepted |
| F801 | Expressive language disorder | F | Accepted |
| F802 | Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder | F | Accepted |
| F804 | Speech and language development delay due to hearing loss | F | Accepted |
| F8081 | Childhood onset fluency disorder | F | Accepted |
| F8082 | Social pragmatic communication disorder | F | Accepted |
| F8089 | Other developmental disorders of speech and language | F | Accepted |
| F809 | Developmental disorder of speech and language, unspecified | None | Cannot group |
| F810 | Specific reading disorder | None | Cannot group |
| F812 | Mathematics disorder | None | Cannot group |
| F8181 | Disorder of written expression | None | Cannot group |
| F8189 | Other developmental disorders of scholastic skills | None | Cannot group |
| F819 | Developmental disorder of scholastic skills, unspecified | None | Cannot group |
| F82 | Specific developmental disorder of motor function | F | Accepted |
| F840 | Autistic disorder | F | Accepted |
| F842 | Rett's syndrome | F | Accepted |
| F843 | Other childhood disintegrative disorder | F | Accepted |
| F845 | Asperger's syndrome | F | Accepted |
| F848 | Other pervasive developmental disorders | F | Accepted |
| F849 | Pervasive developmental disorder, unspecified | None | Cannot group |
| F88 | Other disorders of psychological development | F | Accepted |
| F89 | Unspecified disorder of psychological development | None | Cannot group |
Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.1.26, effective 2026-04-01. This is the crosswalk Medicare runs a claim through. Grouping also depends on admission source, timing, the OASIS functional items and the rest of the diagnosis list.
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