R48.3

R48.3: Visual agnosia

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R48.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for visual agnosia. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

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

Prosopagnosia
Simultanagnosia (asimultagnosia)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above R48.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on R48: Dyslexia and other symbolic dysfunctions, not elsewhere classified

specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills (F81.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with R48.3

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

R48.1Agnosia

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

R48.3 is named in 9 Medicare coverage policies: 9 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A53060Billing and Coding: Ophthalmology: Extended Ophthalmoscopy and Fundus Photography
A56505Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
A56726Billing and Coding: Ophthalmology: Posterior Segment Imaging (Extended Ophthalmoscopy and Fundus Photography)
A56773Billing and Coding: Neurophysiology Evoked Potentials (NEPs)