F81.8Other developmental disorders of scholastic skills

F81.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other developmental disorders of scholastic skills. It belongs to category F81 (specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills), block F80-F89 (pervasive and specific developmental disorders) and chapter 5 (mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 2 subcodes must be used instead.

Within F81, choose F81.8 (Other developmental disorders of scholastic skills) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: specific reading disorder (F81.0), Mathematics disorder (F81.2) and developmental disorder of scholastic skills, unspecified (F81.9).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: F81.81 (expression) and F81.89 (skills).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.