H53.11

H53.11: Day blindness

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

H53.11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for day blindness. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check H53.11 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

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

Hemeralopia

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H53.11

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on H53.1: Subjective visual disturbances

subjective visual disturbances due to vitamin A deficiency (E50.5)
visual hallucinations (R44.1)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

H53.11 is named in 13 Medicare coverage policies: 13 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A52992Billing and Coding: Non-Invasive Cerebrovascular Arterial Studies
A56505Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
A56672Billing and Coding: Electroretinography (ERG)

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Hemeralopia(day blindness)
Blindness›day
Disturbance›vision, visual›subjective›day blindness

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.