E50.5
E50.5: Vitamin A deficiency with night blindness
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
E50.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for vitamin a deficiency with night blindness. It is valid for submission on a claim.
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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
E50.5 is named in 6 Medicare coverage policies: 6 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
- A56672Billing and Coding: Electroretinography (ERG)
- A56799Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
- A57483Billing and Coding: Visual Fields
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Hemeralopia›vitamin A deficiency
- Amblyopia›nocturnal›vitamin A deficiency
- Blindness›night›vitamin A deficiency
- Deficiency, deficient›vitamin NOS›A›with›night blindness
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under E50
- E50.0Vitamin A deficiency with conjunctival xerosis
- E50.1Vitamin A deficiency with Bitot's spot and conjunctival xerosis
- E50.2Vitamin A deficiency with corneal xerosis
- E50.3Vitamin A deficiency with corneal ulceration and xerosis
- E50.4Vitamin A deficiency with keratomalacia
- E50.6Vitamin A deficiency with xerophthalmic scars of cornea
- E50.7Other ocular manifestations of vitamin A deficiency
- E50.8Other manifestations of vitamin A deficiency
- E50.9Vitamin A deficiency, unspecified