H53.5
H53.5: Color vision deficiencies
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H53.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for color vision deficiencies. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- day blindness (H53.11)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Color blindness
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead H53.5
7 child codes. Green means billable.