ICD-10 · PDGM grouping
D50-D53 — Nutritional anemias
Every ICD-10-CM code in this range and the PDGM clinical group CMS assigns to it, read from the CMS grouper crosswalk v07.2.26.
Codes in range
19
No clinical group
0
A period cannot be grouped from these.
Barred as primary
0
CMS rejects these in the primary position.
Where these codes group
19 of the 19 codes in D50-D53 group to MMTA - Infectious Disease, Neoplasms, and Blood-Forming Diseases. Every code here is assigned a group.
Code families in D50-D53
One page per three-character family: every code in it, whether it can lead a claim, its clinical group and comorbidity subgroup.
Every code in D50-D53
Descriptions are CMS’s own, abbreviated as CMS abbreviates them.
| Code | Description | Clinical group | Primary position |
|---|---|---|---|
| D500 | Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic) | K | Can lead a claim |
| D501 | Sideropenic dysphagia | K | Can lead a claim |
| D508 | Other iron deficiency anemias | K | Can lead a claim |
| D509 | Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified | K | Can lead a claim |
| D510 | Vitamin B12 defic anemia due to intrinsic factor deficiency | K | Can lead a claim |
| D511 | Vit B12 defic anemia d/t slctv vit B12 malabsorp w protein | K | Can lead a claim |
| D512 | Transcobalamin II deficiency | K | Can lead a claim |
| D513 | Other dietary vitamin B12 deficiency anemia | K | Can lead a claim |
| D518 | Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemias | K | Can lead a claim |
| D519 | Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia, unspecified | K | Can lead a claim |
| D520 | Dietary folate deficiency anemia | K | Can lead a claim |
| D521 | Drug-induced folate deficiency anemia | K | Can lead a claim |
| D528 | Other folate deficiency anemias | K | Can lead a claim |
| D529 | Folate deficiency anemia, unspecified | K | Can lead a claim |
| D530 | Protein deficiency anemia | K | Can lead a claim |
| D531 | Other megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified | K | Can lead a claim |
| D532 | Scorbutic anemia | K | Can lead a claim |
| D538 | Other specified nutritional anemias | K | Can lead a claim |
| D539 | Nutritional anemia, unspecified | K | Can lead a claim |
Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.2.26, effective 2026-10-01. This is the crosswalk Medicare runs a claim through. Grouping also depends on admission source, timing, the OASIS functional items and the rest of the diagnosis list.
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