Z82.1
Z82.1 — Family history of blindness and visual loss
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z82.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for family history of blindness and visual loss. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Conditions classifiable to H54.-
Risk adjustment
Z82.1 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.
How Z82.1 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 Z82.1.
- History›family›blindness
- History›family›visual loss
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z82. If Z82.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z82.0Family history of epilepsy and other diseases of the nervous system
- Z82.2Family history of deafness and hearing loss
- Z82.3Family history of stroke
- Z82.4Family history of ischemic heart disease and other diseases of the circulatory system
- Z82.5Family history of asthma and other chronic lower respiratory diseases
- Z82.6Family history of arthritis and other diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
- Z82.7Family history of congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Z82.8Family history of other disabilities and chronic diseases leading to disablement, not elsewhere classified
Questions about Z82.1
- Is Z82.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z82.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z82.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99).