Low vision, one eye, unspecified eye

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Low vision, one eye, unspecified 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.

Vision, visual > low
Low > vision > one eye

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H54.51	Low vision, right eye, normal vision left eye	Not billable
H54.52	Low vision, left eye, normal vision right eye	Not billable