2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code D53

Other nutritional anemias

    2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
  • D53 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
  • The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM D53 became effective on October 1, 2022.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of D53 - other international versions of ICD-10 D53 may differ.
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  • megaloblastic anemia unresponsive to vitamin B12 or folate therapy
The following code(s) above D53 contain annotation back-references
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that may be applicable to D53:
  • D50-D89
    2023 ICD-10-CM Range D50-D89

    Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism

    Type 2 Excludes
    • autoimmune disease (systemic) NOS (M35.9)
    • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96)
    • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
    • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
    • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
    • human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
    • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
    • neoplasms (C00-D49)
    • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
    Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
Code History
  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To D53
D51.1 Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to selective vitamin B12 malabsorption with proteinuria
D51.2 Transcobalamin II deficiency
D51.3 Other dietary vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
D51.8 Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemias
D51.9 Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia, unspecified
D52 Folate deficiency anemia
D52.0 Dietary folate deficiency anemia
D52.1 Drug-induced folate deficiency anemia
D52.8 Other folate deficiency anemias
D52.9 Folate deficiency anemia, unspecified
D53 Other nutritional anemias
D53.0 Protein deficiency anemia
D53.1 Other megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified
D53.2 Scorbutic anemia
D53.8 Other specified nutritional anemias
D53.9 Nutritional anemia, unspecified
D55 Anemia due to enzyme disorders
D55.0 Anemia due to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase [G6PD] deficiency
D55.1 Anemia due to other disorders of glutathione metabolism
D55.2 Anemia due to disorders of glycolytic enzymes
D55.21 Anemia due to pyruvate kinase deficiency

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.