Unspecified visual loss
Billable / specific
H54.7 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
- Visual impairment category 9 NOS
Includes (from H54)
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition
- Note: For definition of visual impairment categories see table below
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from H54)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from H54)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from H54)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from H54)
- diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-) (from H54)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from H54)
- injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-) (from H54)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from H54)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from H54)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from H54)
- syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71) (from H54)
Code first
Sequence the underlying condition first.
- any associated underlying cause of the blindness (from H54)
Also known as
- Visual impairment category 9 NOS
- Decrease, vision NEC
- Defect, defective, vision NEC
- Diminished, diminution, vision NEC
- Impaired, impairment, vision NEC
- Loss, vision, visual
- Poor, vision NEC
- Problem, sight
- Vision, visual, defect, defective NEC
Parent code
- H54Blindness and low visionHeader
Related codes
- H54.0Blindness, both eyesHeader
- H54.1Blindness, one eye, low vision other eyeHeader
- H54.2Low vision, both eyesHeader
- H54.3Unqualified visual loss, both eyesBillable
- H54.4Blindness, one eyeHeader
- H54.5Low vision, one eyeHeader
- H54.6Unqualified visual loss, one eyeHeader
- H54.8Legal blindness, as defined in USABillable