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Category · FY2027

D52 Folate deficiency anemia

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D52 is not billable. The category heads 4 billable codes in FY2027: the 4 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)goat's milk → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)folate (folic acid) deficiency → D52.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyfolate → D52.9

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. D52 Folate deficiency anemia
Billable codes
4
Subdivisions
4
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
17

Codes in D52

  1. D52.0
    Dietary folate deficiency anemia
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Nutritional megaloblastic anemia
  2. D52.1
    Drug-induced folate deficiency anemia
    Billable
    Use additional code 1

    Use additional code

    • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5) T36 T50
  3. D52.8
    Other folate deficiency anemias
    Billable
  4. D52.9
    Folate deficiency anemia, unspecified
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Folic acid deficiency anemia NOS

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At D52

Excludes1

  • folate deficiency without anemia (E53.8) E53.8

Notes that also apply

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

Index entries

  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)goat's milk → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)folate (folic acid) deficiency → D52.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)macrocyticnutritional → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)megaloblasticnutritional → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)nutritional (deficiency)megaloblastic → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)macrocytictropical → D52.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)pleochromicof sprue → D52.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)tropicalmacrocytic → D52.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyfolate → D52.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyfolic acid → D52.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyfolatedietary → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyfolic aciddietary → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyfolatedrug-induced → D52.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyfolic aciddrug-induced → D52.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencyfolate (folic acid) → D52.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencyfolate (folic acid)dietary → D52.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencyfolate (folic acid)drug-induced → D52.1

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