ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H53.14 Visual discomfort › H53.143
H53.143
Visual discomfort, bilateral
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 Visual discomfort, bilateral
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.
- Asymmetry
- Eyestrain
- Asthenopia
- Strain > eye NEC
- Distortion > visual
- Tear, torn > muscle
- Tear, torn > tendon
- Elongated, elongation
- Aberration > distantial
- Rupture, ruptured > muscle
- Rupture, ruptured > tendon
- Rupture, ruptured > muscle > traumatic
- Annular > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Sacculation > organ or site, congenital
- Tortuous > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Curvature > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Dilatation > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Rupture, ruptured > traumatic > muscle or tendon
- Diverticulum, diverticula > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Short, shortening, shortness > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Irregular, irregularity > shape, organ or site, congenital NEC
- Photophobia
- Discomfort > visual
- Disturbance > vision, visual > subjective > discomfort
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H53.141 | Visual discomfort, right eye | Valid |
| H53.142 | Visual discomfort, left eye | Valid |
| H53.149 | Visual discomfort, unspecified | Valid |