Vitamin deficiency, 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 Vitamin deficiency, 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 E56 Other vitamin deficiencies

Excludes1 - never coded here

sequelae of other vitamin deficiencies (E64.8)

Inherited from the E50-E64 section Other nutritional deficiencies (E50-E64)

Excludes2 - not included here

nutritional anemias (D50-D53)

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
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
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
Deficiency, deficient > coagulation NOS > clotting factor NEC
Avitaminosis
Neuroavitaminosis
Deficiency, deficient > vitamin NOS
Encephalopathy > in > lack of vitamin
Polyneuropathy > in > avitaminosis NEC
Polyneuropathy > in > lack of vitamin NEC
Polyneuritis, polyneuritic > due to lack of vitamin NEC

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
E56.0	Deficiency of vitamin E	Valid
E56.1	Deficiency of vitamin K	Valid
E56.8	Deficiency of other vitamins	Valid