Scope Health
Scope Health
Back to Scope Health

D53.0

Protein deficiency anemia

Billable

Code Hierarchy

D53D53.0

Chapter: 3. Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism

Section: D50-D53 - Nutritional anemias

Coding Guidelines

Inclusion Terms

  • Amino-acid deficiency anemia
  • Orotaciduric anemia

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with D53.0

  • E79.1 - Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (E79.1)

Related Codes

D53.1Billable

Other megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified

D53.2Billable

Scorbutic anemia

D53.8Billable

Other specified nutritional anemias

D53.9Billable

Nutritional anemia, unspecified

Get started with Scope today

Spend more time caring for patients, not charting. Scope captures your patient encounters in real time and quickly generates high-quality clinical notes – and it's completely free.

AnneLisaDavid
1k+

from 1k+ happy clinicians

Get started now