D51
D51: Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
D51 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for vitamin b12 deficiency anemia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- deficiency of other B group vitamins (E53-)
Other codes that can never be billed with D51
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- E72.1Disorders of sulfur-bearing amino-acid metabolism
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead D51
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- D51.0Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to intrinsic factor deficiency
- D51.1Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to selective vitamin B12 malabsorption with proteinuria
- D51.2Transcobalamin II deficiency
- D51.3Other dietary vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
- D51.8Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemias
- D51.9Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia, unspecified