Thalassemia, unspecified
Billable / specific
D56.9 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
- Mediterranean anemia (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
- Mediterranean anemia (with other hemoglobinopathy)
- Anemia, Mediterranean
- Anemia, microelliptopoikilocytic
- Anemia, Rietti-Greppi-Micheli
- Anemia, thalassemia
- Arthritis, arthritic, in thalassemia NEC
- Disease, diseased, hemoglobin or Hb, abnormalNEC, with thalassemia
- Disease, diseased, hemoglobin or Hb, H, with other abnormal hemoglobin NEC
- Disease, diseased, hemoglobin or Hb, I thalassemia
- Disease, diseased, high fetal gene or hemoglobin thalassemia
- Leptocytosis, hereditary
- Rietti-Greppi-Micheli anemia
- Thalassemia
Parent code
- D56ThalassemiaHeader