D50.0 Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026.

Applicable to

• Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic)

Excludes1 (never code together)

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

Applies from D50 Iron deficiency anemia

Includes

• asiderotic anemia
• hypochromic anemia

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 811-812 in MDC 16.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 280.0 Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)

Code annotations containing back-references to D50.0

Back-references to D50.0

• Type 1 Excludes: D62 Acute posthemorrhagic anemia ("anemia due to chronic blood loss (D50.0)")
• Type 1 Excludes: D62 Acute posthemorrhagic anemia ("blood loss anemia NOS (D50.0)")
• Code First: I21.A1 Myocardial infarction type 2 ("anemia (D50.0-D64.9)")

Back-references to D50

• Type 1 Excludes: E61.1 Iron deficiency ("iron deficiency anemia (D50.-)")
• Type 1 Excludes: E83.1 Disorders of iron metabolism ("iron deficiency anemia (D50.-)")
• Code First: M90.5 Osteonecrosis in diseases classified elsewhere ("hemoglobinopathy (D50-D64)")
• Type 1 Excludes: R71 Abnormality of red blood cells ("anemias (D50-D64)")

Diagnosis Index entries for D50.0

• 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 to (acute) blood loss › 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)

Nearby codes

• D50 Iron deficiency anemia
• D50.0 Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic) (this code)
• D50.1 Sideropenic dysphagia
• D50.8 Other iron deficiency anemias
• D50.9 Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified