2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code H53.8

Other visual disturbances

ICD-10-CM Code:
H53.8
ICD-10 Code for:
Other visual disturbances
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
Chronic Condition Indicator: [1]
Not chronic
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Code Classification

  • Diseases of the eye and adnexa
    (H00–H59)
    • Visual disturbances and blindness
      (H53-H54)
      • Visual disturbances
        (H53)

H53.8 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other visual disturbances. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Approximate Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

  • Abnormal response to visual stimuli
  • Absent response to visual stimuli
  • Accommodation phosphene
  • After image
  • Afterimage
  • Alcoholic amblyopia
  • Blurring of visual image
  • Bradyopsia
  • Chromatic aberration of vision
  • Clarity of visual image - finding
  • Coma wavefront aberration
  • Conjugated visual deviation
  • Curtain across vision
  • Delayed visual maturation
  • Difficulty seeing close objects
  • Difficulty seeing distant objects
  • Diplopia
  • Dysfunction of visual motion detection
  • Dysphotopsia
  • Dysphotopsia
  • Dysphotopsia
  • Eccentric viewing
  • Entoptic phenomenon
  • Entoptic phenomenon
  • Eyes sensitive to light
  • Fading of visual image
  • Finding of response to visual stimuli
  • Finding of response to visual stimuli
  • Finding related to focusing
  • General reaction to light - finding
  • General reaction to light - finding
  • Haidinger brushes
  • Hazy vision
  • Higher-order aberration of vision
  • Higher-order wavefront aberration
  • Higher-order wavefront aberration
  • Higher-order wavefront aberration
  • Holds objects close
  • Left eye perceives light only
  • Lower-order aberration of vision
  • Lower-order wavefront aberration
  • Misjudges distances
  • Monocular diplopia
  • Monovision
  • Multiple visual images
  • Negative dysphotopsia
  • Nutritional amblyopia
  • Ocular accommodation - finding
  • Pain in eye
  • Palinopsia
  • Perceives light only
  • Perceives light only
  • Phosphene
  • Photophobia
  • Poor visual acuity
  • Positive dysphotopsia
  • Quadrafoil wavefront aberration
  • Quality of visual image - finding
  • Quality of visual image - finding
  • Quality of visual image - finding
  • Quality of visual image - finding
  • Quality of visual image - finding
  • Quality of visual image - finding
  • Refraction measurement - finding
  • Refractive polyopia
  • Refractive power - finding
  • Right eye perceives light only
  • Scotopic sensitivity
  • Slow to focus
  • Speed of focus - finding
  • Spherical aberration of vision
  • Staring at diffuse light source
  • Superimposition
  • Temporal crescent syndrome
  • Tobacco amblyopia
  • Toxic amblyopia
  • Toxic optic neuropathy
  • Trefoil wavefront aberration
  • Visual acuity PL - inaccurate projection
  • Visual behavior - finding
  • Visual behavior - finding
  • Visual behavior - finding
  • Visual image fades and reappears
  • Visual image lingers
  • Visual obscuration
  • Visual snow syndrome
  • Wavefront aberration

Clinical Classification

Clinical Information

  • Diplopia

    a visual symptom in which a single object is perceived by the visual cortex as two objects rather than one. disorders associated with this condition include refractive errors; strabismus; oculomotor nerve diseases; trochlear nerve diseases; abducens nerve diseases; and diseases of the brain stem and occipital lobe.
  • Toxic Optic Neuropathy

    damage to the eye or its function (e.g., visual impairment) due to optic nerve damage secondary to toxic substances such as drugs used in chemotherapy; immunotherapy; or radiation.
  • Photophobia

    abnormal sensitivity to light. this may occur as a manifestation of eye diseases; migraine; subarachnoid hemorrhage; meningitis; and other disorders. photophobia may also occur in association with depression and other mental disorders.
  • Afterimage

    continuation of visual impression after cessation of stimuli causing the original image.
  • Monocular Diplopia

    perception of more than one image when viewing with one eye.

Index to Diseases and Injuries References

The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).

Convert H53.8 to ICD-9-CM

  • ICD-9-CM Code: 368.8 - Visual disturbances NEC
    Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.

Patient Education


Vision Impairment and Blindness

If you have low vision, eyeglasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery may not help. Activities like reading, shopping, cooking, writing, and watching TV may be hard to do. The leading causes of low vision and blindness in the United States are age-related eye diseases: macular degeneration, cataract and glaucoma. Other eye disorders, eye injuries, and birth defects can also cause vision loss.

Whatever the cause, lost vision cannot be restored. It can, however, be managed. A loss of vision means that you may have to reorganize your life and learn new ways of doing things. If you have some vision, visual aids such as special glasses and large print books can make life easier. There are also devices to help those with no vision, like text-reading software and braille books.

The sooner vision loss or eye disease is found and treated, the greater your chances of keeping your remaining vision. You should have regular comprehensive eye exams by an eye care professional.

NIH: National Eye Institute


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Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.

Footnotes

[1] Not chronic - A diagnosis code that does not fit the criteria for chronic condition (duration, ongoing medical treatment, and limitations) is considered not chronic. Some codes designated as not chronic are acute conditions. Other diagnosis codes that indicate a possible chronic condition, but for which the duration of the illness is not specified in the code description (i.e., we do not know the condition has lasted 12 months or longer) also are considered not chronic.