ICD-10-CM › D50-D89 › D50-D53 › D50 Iron deficiency anemia › D50.8
D50.8
Other iron deficiency anemias
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Other iron deficiency anemias
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from D50 Iron deficiency anemia
Includes
- asiderotic anemia
- hypochromic anemia
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Deficit
- Sideropenia
- Avitaminosis
- Hypovitaminosis
- Vitamin deficiency
- Deprivation > vitamins
- Deficiency, deficient > factor
- Deficiency, deficient > clotting
- Disturbance > absorption > vitamin
- Encephalopathy > in > lack of vitamin
- Witts' anemia
- Green sickness
- Anemia > Witts'
- Chlorotic anemia
- Sickness > green
- Anemia > chlorotic
- Anemia > achlorhydric
- Hypochromasia, blood cells
- Achlorhydria, achlorhydric > anemia
- Anemia > iron deficiency > specified type NEC
- Anemia > nutritional > with > poor iron absorption
- Anemia > deficiency > nutritional > with > poor iron absorption
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| D50.0 | Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic) | Valid |
| D50.1 | Sideropenic dysphagia | Valid |
| D50.9 | Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified | Valid |