D64.81 — Anemia due to antineoplastic chemotherapy
D64.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for anemia due to antineoplastic chemotherapy. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Antineoplastic chemotherapy induced anemia
Risk adjustment
D64.81 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
D64.81 is named in 11 Medicare coverage policies — 11 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56464Billing and Coding: Flow Cytometry
- A56795Billing and Coding: Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents (ESAs)
- A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
- A58710Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Pathogen Identification Testing
How D64.81 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 D64.81.
- Anemia›due to›antineoplastic chemotherapy
- Anemia›due to›chemotherapy, antineoplastic
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D64.8. If D64.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D64.81
- Is D64.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. D64.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does D64.81 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 Aplastic and other anemias and other bone marrow failure syndromes (D60-D64).