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Category · FY2027

D53 Other nutritional anemias

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D53 is not billable. The category heads 5 billable codes in FY2027: the 5 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Megalocytic anemia → D53.1
  • Scurvy, scorbuticanemia → D53.2
  • Amino-acid disorderanemia → D53.0

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. D53 Other nutritional anemias
Billable codes
5
Subdivisions
5
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
38

Codes in D53

  1. D53.0
    Protein deficiency anemia
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2, Excludes1 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Amino-acid deficiency anemia
    • Orotaciduric anemia

    Excludes1

    • Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (E79.1) E79.1
  2. D53.1
    Other megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Megaloblastic anemia NOS

    Excludes1

    • Di Guglielmo's disease (C94.0) C94.0
  3. D53.2
    Scorbutic anemia
    Billable
    Excludes1 1

    Excludes1

    • scurvy (E54) E54
  4. D53.8
    Other specified nutritional anemias
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 3, Excludes2 4

    Inclusion terms

    • Anemia associated with deficiency of copper
    • Anemia associated with deficiency of molybdenum
    • Anemia associated with deficiency of zinc

    Excludes2

    • nutritional deficiencies without anemia, such as:
    • copper deficiency NOS (E61.0) E61.0
    • molybdenum deficiency NOS (E61.5) E61.5
    • zinc deficiency NOS (E60) E60
  5. D53.9
    Nutritional anemia, unspecified
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Simple chronic anemia

    Excludes1

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At D53

Includes

  • megaloblastic anemia unresponsive to vitamin B12 or folate therapy

Notes that also apply

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

Index entries

  • Megalocytic anemia → D53.1
  • Amino-acid disorderanemia → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)amino-acid-deficiency → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)orotaciduric (congenital) (hereditary) → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)protein-deficiency → D53.0
  • Orotaciduria, oroticaciduria (congenital) (hereditary) (pyrimidine deficiency)anemia → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)achrestic → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)dimorphic → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)diphasic → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)megaloblastic → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)megalocytic → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)scorbutic → D53.2
  • Scorbutus, scorbuticanemia → D53.2
  • Scurvy, scorbuticanemia → D53.2
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiency → D53.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)macrocytic → D53.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)malnutrition → D53.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)nutritional (deficiency) → D53.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)simple chronic → D53.9
  • Aciduriaorotic (congenital) (hereditary) (pyrimidine deficiency)anemia → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyamino-acid → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencyprotein → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)megaloblasticorotic aciduria → D53.0
  • Deficiency, deficientproteinanemia → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencycombined B12 and folate → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)megaloblasticcombined B12 and folate deficiency → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)megaloblasticrefractory → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)megaloblasticspecified type NEC → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)refractorymegaloblastic → D53.1
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)chronicsimple → D53.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencynutritional → D53.9
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencyamino-acid → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencyprotein → D53.0
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencycopper → D53.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencymolybdenum → D53.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)due to (in) (with)deficiencyzinc → D53.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)nutritional (deficiency)withspecified deficiency NEC → D53.8
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound)deficiencynutritionalwithspecified deficiency NEC → D53.8

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