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E50.5

Billable

Vitamin A deficiency with night blindness

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

Vitamin A deficiency causing difficulty seeing in low light or darkness, often one of the earliest signs of vitamin A deficiency.

Coding Tips

  • Night blindness may be the first clinical manifestation of vitamin A deficiency
  • This is a functional vision problem that typically improves with vitamin A supplementation

Code Hierarchy

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