ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H54 Blindness and low vision › H54.8
Legal blindness, as defined in USA
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Legal blindness, as defined in USA
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 > legal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H54.0 | Blindness, both eyes | Not billable |
| H54.1 | Blindness, one eye, low vision other eye | Not billable |
| H54.2 | Low vision, both eyes | Not billable |
| H54.3 | Unqualified visual loss, both eyes | Valid |
| H54.4 | Blindness, one eye | Not billable |
| H54.5 | Low vision, one eye | Not billable |
| H54.6 | Unqualified visual loss, one eye | Not billable |
| H54.7 | Unspecified visual loss | Valid |