Unspecified visual loss
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases.
The ICD-10-CM is a catalog of diagnosis codes used by medical professionals for medical coding and reporting in health care settings. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) maintain the catalog in the U.S. releasing yearly updates.
Why ICD-10 codes are important
The nerves that carry visual signals follow a complex pathway from the back of the eye to the brain's visual processing center, called the occipital lobe. When any part of this pathway is damaged because of a disease or an injury, part of the visual field may disappear. This is called a visual field defect.
H53. 40 - Unspecified visual field defects. ICD-10-CM.
Visual field loss is when you have lost an area of vision in your visual field. Visual field loss following a stroke or brain injury usually affects both eyes. Usually the part of your vision lost is to the same side as any weakness in your face, arms or legs.
ICD-10-CM Code for Visual disturbances H53.
8: Other visual disturbances.
CPT code 92083: Visual field ex- amination, unilateral or bilateral, with interpretation and report; extended examination (e.g., Goldmann visual fields with at least 3 isopters plotted and static determination within the central 30 degrees, or quantitative, automated threshold perimetry, Octopus program G-1, 32, or 42, ...
The specific condition where visual field defects are present in corresponding halves of the right and left eye fields is called homonymous hemianopia, whereas defects involving the outer or inner halves of both visual fields are called bitemporal or binasal hemianopia, respectively.
Types of Field DefectsType*DescriptionConstriction of the peripheral fields, leaving only a small residual central fieldLoss of the outer part of the entire visual field in one or both eyesHomonymous hemianopiaLoss of part or all of the left half or right half of both visual fields; does not cross the vertical median8 more rows
Most Common Adult Vision ProblemsBlurred vision (called refractive errors)Age-related macular degeneration.Glaucoma.Cataract.Diabetic retinopathy.
Abstract. Subjective Visual Disturbances are silent adversaries that appear over a period of continued exposure and arise when the visual demands of the tasks exceed the visual abilities of the user.
6-, Unqualified visual loss, one eye. For example, H54. 62 corresponds to Unqualified visual loss, left eye, normal vision right eye. If “blindness” or “visual loss” is documented without any information about whether one or both eyes are affected, assign code H54.
What are the types of low vision?Central vision loss (not being able to see things in the center of your vision)Peripheral vision loss (not being able to see things out of the corners of your eyes)Night blindness (not being able to see in low light)Blurry or hazy vision.
A localized defect in the visual field bordered by an area of normal vision. This occurs with a variety of eye diseases (e.g., retinal diseases and glaucoma); optic nerve diseases, and other conditions.
The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM H53.40 became effective on October 1, 2021.
Bitemporal hemianopsia (aka bitemporal heteronymous hemianopsia or bitemporal hemianopia) is the medical description of a type of partial blindness where vision is missing in the outer half of both the right and left visual field. It is usually associated with lesions of the optic chiasm, the area where the optic nerves from the right and left eyes cross near the pituitary gland.
Use a child code to capture more detail. ICD Code H53.4 is a non-billable code.