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D52.0

Dietary folate deficiency anemia

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Dietary folate deficiency anemia

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 D52 Folate deficiency anemia

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • folate deficiency without anemia (E53.8)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
D52.1 Drug-induced folate deficiency anemia Valid
D52.8 Other folate deficiency anemias Valid
D52.9 Folate deficiency anemia, unspecified Valid