ICD-10-CM › D50-D89 › D50-D53 › D53 Other nutritional anemias › D53.1
D53.1
Other megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified
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 megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified
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 D53 Other nutritional anemias
Includes
- megaloblastic anemia unresponsive to vitamin B12 or folate therapy
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 > diphasic
- Anemia > achrestic
- Anemia > dimorphic
- Megalocytic anemia
- Anemia > megalocytic
- Anemia > megaloblastic
- Anemia > megaloblastic > refractory
- Anemia > refractory > megaloblastic
- Anemia > megaloblastic > specified type NEC
- Anemia > deficiency > combined B12 and folate
- Anemia > megaloblastic > combined B12 and folate deficiency
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| D53.0 | Protein deficiency anemia | Valid |
| D53.2 | Scorbutic anemia | Valid |
| D53.8 | Other specified nutritional anemias | Valid |
| D53.9 | Nutritional anemia, unspecified | Valid |