ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H54.1 Blindness, one eye, low vision other eye › H54.11
Blindness, right eye, low vision left eye
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- H54.113 Blindness right eye category 3, low vision left eye (also a header)
- H54.114 Blindness right eye category 4, low vision left eye (also a header)
- H54.115 Blindness right eye category 5, low vision left eye (also a header)
Use instead:
- H54.1131 Blindness right eye category 3, low vision left eye category 1 stated for FY2017
- H54.1132 Blindness right eye category 3, low vision left eye category 2 stated for FY2017
- H54.1141 Blindness right eye category 4, low vision left eye category 1 stated for FY2017
- H54.1142 Blindness right eye category 4, low vision left eye category 2 stated for FY2017
- H54.1151 Blindness right eye category 5, low vision left eye category 1 stated for FY2017
- H54.1152 Blindness right eye category 5, low vision left eye category 2 stated for FY2017
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 Blindness, right eye, low vision left eye
- FY2018 Stopped being billable
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.
- Blind
- Amaurosis
- Loss > sight
- Vision, visual > low
- Vision, visual > loss
- Low > vision > one eye > other eye blind
- Loss > vision, visual > specified as blindness
- Blindness > one eye > right > low vision on left
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H54.10 | Blindness, one eye, low vision other eye, unspecified eyes | Valid |
| H54.12 | Blindness, left eye, low vision right eye | Not billable |