ICD-10-CM Code H53.5
Color vision deficiencies
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code H53.5 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the seven child codes of H53.5 that describes the diagnosis 'color vision deficiencies' in more detail.
- H53.5 Color vision deficiencies NON-BILLABLE
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- BILLABLE H53.50 Unspecified color vision deficiencies
- BILLABLE H53.51 Achromatopsia
- BILLABLE H53.52 Acquired color vision deficiency
- BILLABLE H53.53 Deuteranomaly
- BILLABLE H53.54 Protanomaly
- BILLABLE H53.55 Tritanomaly
- BILLABLE H53.59 Other color vision deficiencies
The ICD code H535 is used to code Color blindness
Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions. Color blindness affects a significant percentage of the population. There is no actual blindness but there is a deficiency of color vision. The most usual cause is a fault in the development of one or more sets of retinal cones that perceive color in light and transmit that information to the optic nerve. This type of color blindness is usually a sex-linked condition. The genes that produce photopigments are carried on the X chromosome; if some of these genes are missing or damaged, color blindness will be expressed in males with a higher probability than in females because males only have one X chromosome, whereas females have two and a functional gene on only one of the X chromosomes is sufficient to yield the necessary photopigments.
| Specialty: | Ophthalmology |
| MeSH Codes: | D003117, D003117 |
| ICD 9 Codes: | 368.5, 368.5 |
Coding Notes for H53.5 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
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Inclusion Terms:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive. - Color blindness
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Code Type-2 Excludes:
Type-2 Excludes
Type-2 Excludes means the excluded conditions are different, although they may appear similar. A patient may have both conditions, but one does not include the other. Excludes 2 means "not coded here." - Day blindness - instead, use code H53.11
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'H53.5 - Color vision deficiencies'
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code H53.5. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.
Parent Code: H53 - Visual disturbances