ICD-10-CM › D50-D89 › D50-D53 › D52 Folate deficiency anemia › D52.9
Folate deficiency anemia, unspecified
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 Folate 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 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.
- Deficit
- Avitaminosis
- Hypovitaminosis
- Vitamin deficiency
- Deprivation > vitamins
- Deficiency, deficient > factor
- Deficiency, deficient > clotting
- Disturbance > absorption > vitamin
- Encephalopathy > in > lack of vitamin
- Anemia > folate deficiency
- Anemia > deficiency > folate
- Anemia > deficiency > folic acid
- Anemia > due to > deficiency > folate
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| D52.0 | Dietary folate deficiency anemia | Valid |
| D52.1 | Drug-induced folate deficiency anemia | Valid |
| D52.8 | Other folate deficiency anemias | Valid |