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H53.34 ICD-10-CM Code: Suppression of binocular vision

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

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v44, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 124 — OTHER DISORDERS OF THE EYE WITH MCC OR THROMBOLYTIC AGENT (MDC 02)
  • MS-DRG 125 — OTHER DISORDERS OF THE EYE WITHOUT MCC (MDC 02)

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.

Coding context

The comparisons, hierarchy, index entries, guidelines, relationships, risk-adjustment and coverage context a coder commonly needs. Each section names whether it is official source data, a MedCoder-derived relationship or MedCoder editorial.

Don’t confuse H53.34 with…

MedCoder analysis — pairs from this code’s official notes, distinctions written by MedCoder

The codes most likely to be picked instead of H53.34 — named in its own official notes, or sharing its laterality or encounter family — with what separates them and which documentation moves the case. Each links to the full comparison.

  • H53.30— Specificity relationship (Review)

    Overlapping diagnoses in the same category.

    Overlapping codes in the same category — the documentation decides which is the more specific fit.

    What moves you there: A record that documents no more than “Unspecified disorder of binocular vision” takes H53.30; specificity in the record moves it back here.

    Full comparison: H53.34 vs H53.30 →

Relationships are read from this code's own official notes, its laterality siblings and its encounter family; the wording of each distinction is MedCoder editorial, and the documentation named in each “what moves you there” line is the official note phrase or sibling title itself. Source: CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a.

Code Overview

Suppression of binocular vision is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (H53.34).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (3)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Verify Before Coding

  • No Medicare Code Editor or MS-DRG Definitions Manual restrictions apply to this code.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2027)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2027 MS-DRG: not on the CMS CC/MCC list — as a secondary diagnosis this code does not change MS-DRG severity for that release.

Named in the grouper logic of 2 MS-DRGs: DRG 124 (MDC 02), DRG 125 (MDC 02).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):EYE010 — Blindness and vision defects (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Blindness and vision defects).

H53.143 — Visual discomfort, bilateral, H53.149 — Visual discomfort, unspecified, H53.15 — Visual distortions of shape and size, H53.16 — Psychophysical visual disturbances, H53.19 — Other subjective visual disturbances, H53.2 — Diplopia, H53.30 — Unspecified disorder of binocular vision, H53.31 — Abnormal retinal correspondence, H53.32 — Fusion with defective stereopsis, H53.33 — Simultaneous visual perception without fusion, H53.40 — Unspecified visual field defects, H53.411 — Scotoma involving central area, right eye, H53.412 — Scotoma involving central area, left eye, H53.413 — Scotoma involving central area, bilateral, H53.419 — Scotoma involving central area, unspecified eye, H53.421 — Scotoma of blind spot area, right eye, H53.422 — Scotoma of blind spot area, left eye, H53.423 — Scotoma of blind spot area, bilateral, H53.429 — Scotoma of blind spot area, unspecified eye, H53.431 — Sector or arcuate defects, right eye, +116 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main terms “Vision, visual”, “Suppression”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

E28.39 — Other primary ovarian failure (ovarian secretion), F44.6 — Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit (disturbance, hysterical), H54.7 — Unspecified visual loss (defect, defective NEC), N28.9 — Disorder of kidney and ureter, unspecified (renal), N94.89 — Other specified conditions associated with female genital organs and menstrual cycle (menstruation), O92.5 — Suppressed lactation (lactation), R34 — Anuria and oliguria (urine, urinary secretion), R44.1 — Visual hallucinations (hallucinations), Z01.00 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision without abnormal findings (examination), Z01.01 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision with abnormal findings (examination, with abnormal findings), Z01.020 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision following failed vision screening without abnormal findings (examination, following failed vision screening), Z01.021 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision following failed vision screening with abnormal findings (examination, following failed vision screening, with abnormal findings)

Contextual Map

Every relationship of H53.34 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Hierarchy

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

MDC crossing

  • MDC 02 — Diseases and Disorders of the Eye[MDC crossing]: “Diseases and Disorders of the Eye — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 1,200 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2027

Index entries

  • Disorder (of), vision, binocular, suppression[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Suppression, binocular vision[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Vision, visual, binocular, suppression[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027

Nearest codes (40)

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Deep reference

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Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2027 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2026 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v44.0 (October 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v44 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

Current data releases:ICD-10-CM FY2027 · ICD-10-PCS FY2027 · HCPCS October 2026 · MS-DRG v44 · Medicare Code Editor v44.0 · NCCI PTP Q4 2026 · MUE Q4 2026 · NCD code lists 2026-01 · LCD export September 20, 2026 · All releases and sources

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MedCoder.ai. "H53.34 — Suppression of binocular vision." ICD-10-CM FY2027. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/h53.34-suppression-of-binocular-vision

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Suppression of binocular vision

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027, and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

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