Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified

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
Leukoencephalopathy
Deprivation > vitamins
Deficiency, deficient > factor
Defect, defective > coagulation
Deficiency, deficient > clotting
Disturbance > absorption > vitamin
Encephalopathy > in > lack of vitamin
Deficiency, deficient > clotting factor NEC
Deficiency, deficient > coagulation NOS > clotting factor NEC
Chlorosis
Hyposiderinemia
Anemia > Faber's
Faber's syndrome
Syndrome > Faber's
Anemia > asiderotic
Anemia > microcytic
Anemia > hypochromic
Anemia > sideropenic
Syndrome > Hayem-Faber
Anemia > iron deficiency
Anemia > deficiency > iron
Anemia > with > koilonychia
Anemia > refractory > sideropenic
Anemia > due to > impaired absorption
Deficiency, deficient > iron > anemia

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
D50.0	Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)	Valid
D50.1	Sideropenic dysphagia	Valid
D50.8	Other iron deficiency anemias	Valid