Blindness, left eye, low vision right 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.

Billable FY2016 to FY2017, and a category header from FY2018.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

H54.121 Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye (also a header)
H54.122 Low vision right eye category 2, blindness left eye (also a header)

Use instead:

H54.1213 Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye category 3 stated for FY2017
H54.1214 Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye category 4 stated for FY2017
H54.1215 Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye category 5 stated for FY2017
H54.1223 Low vision right eye category 2, blindness left eye category 3 stated for FY2017
H54.1224 Low vision right eye category 2, blindness left eye category 4 stated for FY2017
H54.1225 Low vision right eye category 2, blindness left eye category 5 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, left eye, low vision right 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 > left > low vision on right

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H54.10	Blindness, one eye, low vision other eye, unspecified eyes	Valid
H54.11	Blindness, right eye, low vision left eye	Not billable