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Category · FY2027

D50 Iron deficiency anemia

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D50 is not billable. The category heads 4 billable codes in FY2027: the 4 codes directly below it.

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Where it sits

  1. Chapter 3 Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)
  2. D50-D53 Nutritional anemias (D50-D53)
  3. D50 Iron deficiency anemia
Billable codes
4
Subdivisions
4
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
61

Codes in D50

  1. D50.0
    Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic)

    Excludes1

    • acute posthemorrhagic anemia (D62) D62
    • congenital anemia from fetal blood loss (P61.3) P61.3
  2. D50.1
    Sideropenic dysphagia
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Kelly-Paterson syndrome
    • Plummer-Vinson syndrome
  3. D50.8
    Other iron deficiency anemias
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Iron deficiency anemia due to inadequate dietary iron intake
  4. D50.9
    Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At D50

Includes

  • asiderotic anemia
  • hypochromic anemia

Notes that also apply

Chapter 3 instructions (Excludes2 9): printed on the chapter 3 page.

Index entries

  • Normocytic anemia (infectional) due to blood loss (chronic) → D50.0
  • Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic) → D50.0
  • Kelly (-Patterson) syndrome (sideropenic dysphagia) → D50.1
  • Paterson (-Brown)(-Kelly) syndrome or web → D50.1
  • Plummer-Vinson syndrome → D50.1
  • Vinson-Plummer syndrome → D50.1
  • Waldenström-Kjellberg syndrome → D50.1
  • Chlorotic anemia → D50.8
  • Green sickness → D50.8
  • Hypochromasia, blood cells → D50.8
  • Witts' anemia → D50.8
  • Chlorosis → D50.9
  • Faber's syndrome (achlorhydric anemia) → D50.9
  • Hyposiderinemia → D50.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)blood loss (chronic) → D50.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)factitious (self-induced blood letting) → D50.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)hemorrhagic (chronic) → D50.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)posthemorrhagic (chronic) → D50.0
  • Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed)anemia (chronic) → D50.0
  • Dysphagiasideropenic → D50.1
  • SyndromeKelly's → D50.1
  • SyndromePaterson (-Brown) (-Kelly) → D50.1
  • SyndromePlummer-Vinson → D50.1
  • Syndromesideropenic → D50.1
  • SyndromeVinson-Plummer → D50.1
  • SyndromeWaldenström-Kjellberg → D50.1
  • Web, webbed (congenital)Paterson-Kelly → D50.1
  • Achlorhydria, achlorhydric (neurogenic)anemia → D50.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)achlorhydric → D50.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)chlorotic → D50.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)Witts' (achlorhydric anemia) → D50.8
  • Sicknessgreen → D50.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)asiderotic → D50.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)Faber's (achlorhydric anemia) → D50.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)hypochromic (idiopathic) (microcytic) (normoblastic) → D50.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)iron deficiency → D50.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)microcytic (hypochromic) → D50.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)sideropenic (refractory) → D50.9
  • SyndromeFaber's → D50.9
  • SyndromeHayem-Faber → D50.9

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