E50.1

E50.1: Vitamin A deficiency with Bitot's spot and conjunctival xerosis

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

E50.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for vitamin a deficiency with bitot's spot and conjunctival xerosis. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check E50.1 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Bitot's spot in the young child

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E50.1

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on E50: Vitamin A deficiency

sequelae of vitamin A deficiency (E64.1)

Other codes that can never be billed with E50.1

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

H11.14Conjunctival xerosis, unspecified

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

E50.1 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies: 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
A56799Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
A57483Billing and Coding: Visual Fields
A57637Billing and Coding: Visual Field Examination

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Spots, spotting›Bitot's›in the young child
Spots, spotting›Bitot's›vitamin A deficiency
Xerosis›conjunctiva›with Bitot's spots›vitamin A deficiency
Deficiency, deficient›vitamin NOS›A›with›Bitot's spot(corneal)
Deficiency, deficient›vitamin NOS›A›with›xerosis›conjunctival›and Bitot's spot

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.