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ICD-10 Code for Blindness, both eyes- H54. 0- Codify by AAPC.
Blindness right eye, category 5 The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM H54. 0X5 became effective on October 1, 2021. This is the American ICD-10-CM version of H54.
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H54 Blindness and low vision.
If you're legally blind, your vision is 20/200 or less in your better eye or your field of vision is less than 20 degrees. That means if an object is 200 feet away, you have to stand 20 feet from it in order to see it clearly.
Legal blindness occurs when a person has central visual acuity (vision that allows a person to see straight ahead of them) of 20/200 or less in his or her better eye with correction. With 20/200 visual acuity, a person can see at 20 feet, what a person with 20/20 vision sees at 200 feet.
However, coders should not code Z91. 81 as a primary diagnosis unless there is no other alternative, as this code is from the “Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services,” similar to the V-code section from ICD-9.
ICD-10 Code for Atherosclerotic heart disease of native coronary artery without angina pectoris- I25. 10- Codify by AAPC.
When a patient has a history of cerebrovascular disease without any sequelae or late effects, ICD-10 code Z86. 73 should be assigned.
Category-level tabular instruction at H54. - (Blindness and low vision) requires you to “code first” the underlying cause of the patient's blindness and low vision. Most codes within this category require a high level of detail in the category of vision loss, whether one or both eyes are affected, and to what degree.
ICD-10-CM Code for Visual disturbances H53.
The 2021 edition of ICD-10-CM H54.0 became effective on October 1, 2020.
The term 'low vision' in category H54 comprises categories 1 and 2 of the table, the term 'blindness' categories 3, 4 and 5, and the term 'unqualified visual loss' category 9.
The category, H54, includes codes for blindness and low vision and with that brings many changes for documentation and coding. In 2013 the World Health Organization (WHO) campaigned for greater clarity in the reporting of blindness and low vision and with this latest update we will be following those parameters.
The definition of visual impairment and blindness contained the term “best Corrected Vision in the better eye. According to WHO, recent studies have shown that the use of “best corrected” vision overlooks large portions of visual impairments, including blindness, due to uncorrected refracted error.
Type-1 Excludes mean the conditions excluded are mutually exclusive and should never be coded together. Excludes 1 means "do not code here."
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code H54. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.
H54.8 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of legal blindness, as defined in USA. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
The term 'low vision' in category Code H54 comprises categories 1 and 2 of the table, the term 'blindness' categories 3, 4 and 5, and the term 'unqualified visual loss' category 9.
This is the official approximate match mapping between ICD9 and ICD10, as provided by the General Equivalency mapping crosswalk. This means that while there is no exact mapping between this ICD10 code H54.8 and a single ICD9 code, 369.4 is an approximate match for comparison and conversion purposes.