D50.8 — Other iron deficiency anemias
D50.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other iron deficiency anemias. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Iron deficiency anemia due to inadequate dietary iron intake
Risk adjustment
D50.8 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
D50.8 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How D50.8 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 D50.8.
- Chlorotic anemia
- Green sickness
- Hypochromasia, blood cells
- Witts' anemia
- Achlorhydria, achlorhydric›anemia
- Anemia›achlorhydric
- Anemia›chlorotic
- Anemia›Witts'(achlorhydric anemia)
- Sickness›green
- Anemia›iron deficiency›specified type NEC
- Anemia›nutritional›with›poor iron absorption
- Anemia›deficiency›nutritional›with›poor iron absorption
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D50. If D50.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D50.8
- Is D50.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. D50.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does D50.8 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).