ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H54.0 Blindness, both eyes › H54.0X

H54.0X

Blindness, both eyes, different category levels

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2018 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • H54.0X3 Blindness right eye, category 3 (also a header)
  • H54.0X4 Blindness right eye, category 4 (also a header)
  • H54.0X5 Blindness right eye, category 5 (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2018 to now.

  1. FY2018 Added to the code set Blindness, both eyes, different category levels

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 H54 Blindness and low vision

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • amaurosis fugax (G45.3)

Code first

  • any associated underlying cause of the blindness

Note

  • For definition of visual impairment categories see table below

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.