ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H54.4 Blindness, one eye › H54.41

H54.41

Blindness, right eye, normal 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.

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

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • H54.413 Blindness, right eye, category 3 (also a header)
  • H54.414 Blindness, right eye, category 4 (also a header)
  • H54.415 Blindness, right eye, category 5 (also a header)

Use instead:

  • H54.413A Blindness right eye category 3, normal vision left eye stated for FY2017
  • H54.414A Blindness right eye category 4, normal vision left eye stated for FY2017
  • H54.415A Blindness right eye category 5, normal vision left eye 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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Blindness, right eye, normal vision left eye
  2. 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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H54.40 Blindness, one eye, unspecified eye Valid
H54.42 Blindness, left eye, normal vision right eye Not billable