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2018 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code H53.419

Scotoma involving central area, unspecified eye

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that may be applicable to H53.419:
  • H00-H59
    2018 ICD-10-CM Range H00-H59

    Diseases of the eye and adnexa

    Note
    • Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition
    Type 2 Excludes
    • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
    • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
    • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
    • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
    • diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)
    • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
    • injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)
    • 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)
    • syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)
    Diseases of the eye and adnexa
  • H53.41
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code H53.41

    Scotoma involving central area

      2016 2017 2018 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
    Applicable To
    • Central scotoma
    Scotoma involving central area
Approximate Synonyms ICD-10-CM H53.419 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v35.0):

Convert H53.419 to ICD-9-CM

Code History
ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To H53.419
H53.31 Abnormal retinal correspondence
H53.32 Fusion with defective stereopsis
H53.33 Simultaneous visual perception without fusion
H53.34 Suppression of binocular vision
H53.4 Visual field defects
H53.40 Unspecified visual field defects
H53.41 Scotoma involving central area
H53.411 …… right eye
H53.412 …… left eye
H53.413 …… bilateral
H53.419 …… unspecified eye
H53.42 Scotoma of blind spot area
H53.421 …… right eye
H53.422 …… left eye
H53.423 …… bilateral
H53.429 …… unspecified eye
H53.43 Sector or arcuate defects
H53.431 …… right eye
H53.432 …… left eye
H53.433 …… bilateral
H53.439 …… unspecified eye

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