D50
D50 — Iron deficiency anemia
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
D50 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for iron deficiency anemia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Includes
Conditions this code covers.
- asiderotic anemia
- hypochromic anemia
Other codes that can never be billed with D50
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at D50. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading D50 alone.
Risk adjustment
D50 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.
Code to one of these instead D50
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about D50
- Is D50 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. D50 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does D50 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89), in the block Nutritional anemias (D50-D53).