H53.30 — Unspecified disorder of binocular vision
H53.30 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified disorder of binocular vision. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H53.30 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
H53.30 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.
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56729Billing and Coding: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Head and Neck
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
- A57483Billing and Coding: Visual Fields
How H53.30 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 H53.30.
- Disorder›vision, binocular
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H53.3. If H53.30 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H53.30
- Is H53.30 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H53.30 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H53.30 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Visual disturbances and blindness (H53-H54).