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D56.2
Delta-beta thalassemia
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 Delta-beta thalassemia
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 D56 Thalassemia
Excludes1 - never coded here
- sickle-cell thalassemia (D57.4-)
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.
- Thalassanemia
- Thalassemia > delta-beta
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| D56.0 | Alpha thalassemia | Valid |
| D56.1 | Beta thalassemia | Valid |
| D56.3 | Thalassemia minor | Valid |
| D56.4 | Hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin [HPFH] | Valid |
| D56.5 | Hemoglobin E-beta thalassemia | Valid |
| D56.8 | Other thalassemias | Valid |
| D56.9 | Thalassemia, unspecified | Valid |