E83.111 — Hemochromatosis due to repeated red blood cell transfusions
E83.111 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hemochromatosis due to repeated red blood cell transfusions. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Iron overload due to repeated red blood cell transfusions
- Transfusion (red blood cell) associated hemochromatosis
Risk adjustment
E83.111 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
E83.111 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies — 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
- A56625Billing and Coding: Echocardiography
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
- A57306Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
How E83.111 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 E83.111.
- Hemochromatosis›due to repeated red blood cell transfusion
- Overload›iron, due to repeated red blood cell transfusions
- Transfusion›associated hemochromatosis(red blood cell)
- Complication›transfusion›hemochromatosis
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E83.11. If E83.111 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E83.111
- Is E83.111 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. E83.111 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does E83.111 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Metabolic disorders (E70-E88).