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H53.71 ICD-10-CM Code: Glare sensitivity

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 v43, 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.

Code Overview

Glare sensitivity is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (H53.71).

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 (1)

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 (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 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).

H53.52 — Acquired color vision deficiency, H53.53 — Deuteranomaly, H53.54 — Protanomaly, H53.55 — Tritanomaly, H53.59 — Other color vision deficiencies, H53.60 — Unspecified night blindness, H53.61 — Abnormal dark adaptation curve, H53.62 — Acquired night blindness, H53.63 — Congenital night blindness, H53.69 — Other night blindness, H53.72 — Impaired contrast sensitivity, H53.8 — Other visual disturbances, H53.9 — Unspecified visual disturbance, H54.0 — Blindness, both eyes, H54.0X33 — Blindness right eye category 3, blindness left eye category 3, H54.0X34 — Blindness right eye category 3, blindness left eye category 4, H54.0X35 — Blindness right eye category 3, blindness left eye category 5, H54.0X43 — Blindness right eye category 4, blindness left eye category 3, H54.0X44 — Blindness right eye category 4, blindness left eye category 4, H54.0X45 — Blindness right eye category 4, blindness left eye category 5, +116 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

D59.12 — Cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia (cold, autoimmune), D74.8 — Other methemoglobinemias (methemoglobin), F93.8 — Other childhood emotional disorders (child), G90.01 — Carotid sinus syncope (carotid sinus), K03.89 — Other specified diseases of hard tissues of teeth (dentin), K90.41 — Non-celiac gluten sensitivity (gluten), R76.11 — Nonspecific reaction to tuberculin skin test without active tuberculosis (tuberculin, without clinical or radiological symptoms), Z91.040 — Latex allergy status (latex)

Lab tests where this diagnosis supports Medicare coverage (NCD)

Medicare's National Coverage Determination (NCD) program lists this diagnosis as medical justification for these lab tests.

Blood Glucose Test

Contextual Map

Every relationship of H53.71 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 · FY2026

Index entries

  • Sensitive, sensitivity, visual, glare[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

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

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 FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 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 — v43 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.

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Cite this page

Reference this page in a research guide, syllabus or article. The release is included because code content changes each year.

MedCoder.ai. "H53.71 — Glare sensitivity." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/h53.71-glare-sensitivity

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Glare sensitivity

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to H53.71 in its code family, with their registry titles.

View all codes in the H53 family