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ICD-10/D50.0

D50.0 ICD-10-CM Code: Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 811 — RED BLOOD CELL DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 16)
  • MS-DRG 812 — RED BLOOD CELL DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 16)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (D50.0).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for D50.0 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • asiderotic anemia
  • hypochromic anemia

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic)

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.

  • acute posthemorrhagic anemia (D62)
  • congenital anemia from fetal blood loss (P61.3)

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to D50.0 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • D50 — Iron deficiency anemia
  • D50.1 — Sideropenic dysphagia
  • D50.8 — Other iron deficiency anemias
  • D50.9 — Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified

View all codes in the D50 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (20)

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.

  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), chronic, blood loss
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), deficiency, iron, secondary to blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), due to (in) (with), blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), due to (in) (with), hemorrhage (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), due to (in) (with), loss of blood (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), factitious (self-induced blood letting)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), hemorrhagic (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), hypochromic (idiopathic) (microcytic) (normoblastic), due to blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), iron deficiency, secondary to blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), microcytic (hypochromic), due to blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), normocytic (infectional), due to blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), posthemorrhagic (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), postoperative (postprocedural), due toblood loss (acute), chronic blood loss
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), secondary to, blood loss (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), secondary to, hemorrhage (chronic)
  • Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin deficiency) (infantile) (primary) (profound), sideropenic (refractory), due to blood loss (chronic)
  • Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed), anemia (chronic)
  • Normocytic anemia (infectional) due to blood loss (chronic)
  • Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic)