Is D50.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. D50.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does D50.0 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).

What cannot be coded together with D50.0?

D50.0 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

D50.0

D50.0 — Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

D50.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic). It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

acute posthemorrhagic anemia (D62)
congenital anemia from fetal blood loss (P61.3)

Inclusion terms

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

Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic)

Other codes that can never be billed with D50.0

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at D50.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading D50.0 alone.

D62Acute posthemorrhagic anemia

Risk adjustment

D50.0 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

D50.0 is named in 16 Medicare coverage policies — 16 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

A55937Billing and Coding: Diagnostic Colonoscopy
A56389Billing and Coding: Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Visualization
A56394Billing and Coding: Colonoscopy and Sigmoidoscopy-Diagnostic
A56456Billing and Coding: Colonoscopy/Sigmoidoscopy/Proctosigmoidoscopy

How D50.0 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 D50.0.

Normocytic anemia(infectional) due to blood loss (chronic)
Posthemorrhagic anemia(chronic)
Anemia›blood loss(chronic)
Anemia›factitious(self-induced blood letting)
Anemia›hemorrhagic(chronic)
Anemia›posthemorrhagic(chronic)
Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic›anemia(chronic)
Anemia›chronic›blood loss
Anemia›due to›blood loss(chronic)
Anemia›due to›hemorrhage(chronic)
Anemia›due to›loss of blood(chronic)
Anemia›hypochromic›due to blood loss(chronic)

Related codes at this level

Codes that share D50. If D50.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about D50.0

Is D50.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. D50.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does D50.0 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).
What cannot be coded together with D50.0?: D50.0 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.