ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H53 Visual disturbances › H53.9
H53.9
Unspecified visual disturbance
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 Unspecified visual disturbance
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
- Distortion > visual
- Elongated, elongation
- Aberration > distantial
- 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
- Diverticulum, diverticula > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Short, shortening, shortness > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Irregular, irregularity > shape, organ or site, congenital NEC
- Disturbance > vision, visual
- Vision, visual > disturbance
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H53.0 | Amblyopia ex anopsia | Not billable |
| H53.1 | Subjective visual disturbances | Not billable |
| H53.2 | Diplopia | Valid |
| H53.3 | Other and unspecified disorders of binocular vision | Not billable |
| H53.4 | Visual field defects | Not billable |
| H53.5 | Color vision deficiencies | Not billable |
| H53.6 | Night blindness | Not billable |
| H53.7 | Vision sensitivity deficiencies | Not billable |
| H53.8 | Other visual disturbances | Valid |