H54.60 Unqualified visual loss, one eye, unspecified
Instructional Notes:
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H54.60
Description: Unqualified visual loss, one eye, unspecified
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H54.6
Description: Unqualified visual loss, one eye
Inclusion Term:- Visual impairment category 9 in one eye [normal vision in other eye].
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H54
Description: Blindness and low vision
Exclude1:- amaurosis fugax (G45.3)
- any associated underlying cause of the blindness
- For definition of visual impairment categories see table below
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H53-H54
Description: Visual disturbances and blindness (H53-H54)
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H00-H59
Description: Diseases of the eye and adnexa
Exclude2:- 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)
- Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition