D50.1
D50.1: Sideropenic dysphagia
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
D50.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for sideropenic dysphagia. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check D50.1 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Kelly-Paterson syndrome
- Plummer-Vinson syndrome
Other codes that can never be billed with D50.1
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
D50.1 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A57063Billing and Coding: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Kelly(-Patterson) syndrome (sideropenic dysphagia)
- Paterson syndrome or web(-Brown)(-Kelly)
- Plummer-Vinson syndrome
- Vinson-Plummer syndrome
- Waldenström-Kjellberg syndrome
- Dysphagia›sideropenic
- Syndrome›Kelly's
- Syndrome›Paterson(-Brown) (-Kelly)
- Syndrome›Plummer-Vinson
- Syndrome›sideropenic
- Syndrome›Vinson-Plummer
- Syndrome›Waldenström-Kjellberg
Conditions this code belongs to
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.