ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H53.1 Subjective visual disturbances › H53.16
H53.16
Psychophysical visual disturbances
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 2010 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.
- FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Psychophysical visual disturbances
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.
- Blind
- Amaurosis
- Asymmetry
- Loss > sight
- Distortion > visual
- Vision, visual > low
- Elongated, elongation
- Vision, visual > loss
- Aberration > distantial
- Annular > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Sacculation > organ or site, congenital
- Low > vision > one eye > other eye blind
- Tortuous > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Curvature > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Dilatation > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Loss > vision, visual > specified as blindness
- Diverticulum, diverticula > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Short, shortening, shortness > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Irregular, irregularity > shape, organ or site, congenital NEC
- Blindness > face
- Disturbance > psychophysical visual
- Disturbance > vision, visual > psychophysical
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H53.10 | Unspecified subjective visual disturbances | Valid |
| H53.11 | Day blindness | Valid |
| H53.12 | Transient visual loss | Not billable |
| H53.13 | Sudden visual loss | Not billable |
| H53.14 | Visual discomfort | Not billable |
| H53.15 | Visual distortions of shape and size | Valid |
| H53.19 | Other subjective visual disturbances | Valid |