D55.3 — Anemia due to disorders of nucleotide metabolism
D55.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for anemia due to disorders of nucleotide metabolism. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
D55.3 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
D55.3 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies — 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56718Billing and Coding: Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG)
- A57110Billing and Coding: MolDX: Blood Product Molecular Antigen Typing
- A57124Billing and Coding: MolDX: Blood Product Molecular Antigen Typing
- A57155Billing and Coding: MolDX: Blood Product Molecular Antigen Typing
How D55.3 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to D55.3.
- Anemia›deficiency›enzyme›nucleotide metabolism
- Anemia›due to›disorder of›nucleotide metabolism
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D55. If D55.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D55.3
- Is D55.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. D55.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does D55.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89), in the block Hemolytic anemias (D55-D59).