Complete ICD-10-CM coding and documentation guide for icd-10 coding for blindness includes clinical validation requirements, medical necessity guidelines, and coding policies.
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Essential facts and insights about ICD-10 Coding for Blindness
Use ICD-10 code H54.0 for blindness, both eyes, ensuring proper documentation in clinical notes.
Additional codes that may be used with this diagnosis
Primary open-angle glaucoma
Use to indicate glaucoma as the cause of blindness.
Type 2 diabetes with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy
Use to indicate diabetic retinopathy as the cause of blindness.
The ICD-10 code for blindness in both eyes is H54.0. For legal blindness, use H54.8, ensuring the underlying cause is coded first.
Document legal blindness by specifying visual acuity of 20/200 or worse in the better eye, or a visual field of 20 degrees or less.