Other thalassemias
Billable / specific
D56.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Dominant thalassemia
- Hemoglobin C thalassemia
- Mixed thalassemia
- Thalassemia with other hemoglobinopathy
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- autoimmune disease (systemic) NOS (M35.9) (from D56)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96) (from D56)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from D56)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from D56)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from D56)
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20) (from D56)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from D56)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from D56)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from D56)
Also known as
- Dominant thalassemia
- Hemoglobin C thalassemia
- Mixed thalassemia
- Thalassemia with other hemoglobinopathy
- Anemia, microcytic, familial
- Disease, diseased, hemoglobin or Hb, C, thalassemia
- Hemoglobinopathy, with thalassemia
- Thalassemia, with other hemoglobinopathy
- Thalassemia, dominant
- Thalassemia, hemoglobin, C
- Thalassemia, mixed
- Thalassemia, specified type NEC
- Thalassemia, variants
- Variants, thalassemic
Parent code
- D56ThalassemiaHeader