Low vision right eye category 1, blindness 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.

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:

H54.1213 Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye category 3
H54.1214 Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye category 4
H54.1215 Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye category 5

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2018 to now.

FY2018 Added to the code set Low vision right eye category 1, blindness left eye

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
H54.122	Low vision right eye category 2, blindness left eye	Not billable