Specific code 2011 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 285.9
Anemia unspecified
  • Short description: Anemia NOS.
  • ICD-9-CM 285.9 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 285.9 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
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  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 285.9: 2012 2013 2014 2015.
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  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM D64.9 Anemia, unspecified
Approximate Synonyms
  • Anemia
  • Anemia chronic
  • Anemia due to lead paint exposure
  • Anemia due to medication
  • Anemia due to radiation
  • Anemia during pregnancy - baby not yet delivered
  • Anemia, chronic kidney disease erythropoietin protocol
  • Anemia, due to another condition
  • Anemia, due to lead paint exposure
  • Anemia, due to medications
  • Anemia, normocytic, normochromic
  • Anemia, pre ESRD erythropoietin protocol
  • Anemia, pre-ESRD erythropoietin protocol
  • Anemia, radiation
  • Anemia, secondary
  • Chronic anemia
  • Drug induced anemia
  • Maternal anemia in pregnancy, antepartum
  • Maternal anemia in pregnancy, before birth
  • Normocytic normochromic anemia
  • Secondary anemia
285.9 Excludes
Applies To
  • Anemia:
    • NOS
    • essential
    • normocytic, not due to blood loss
    • profound
    • progressive
    • secondary
  • Oligocythemia
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 285.9:
  • Anemia 285.9
    • with
      • disorder of
        • anaerobic glycolysis 282.3
        • pentose phosphate pathway 282.2
      • koilonychia 280.9
    • 6-phosphogluconic dehydrogenase deficiency 282.2
    • Addison's (pernicious) 281.0
    • Addison-Biermer (pernicious) 281.0
    • amino acid deficiency 281.4
    • antineoplastic chemotherapy induced 285.3
    • atypical (primary) 285.9
    • autohemolysis of Selwyn and Dacie (type I) 282.2
    • autoimmune hemolytic 283.0
    • Biermer's (pernicious) 281.0
    • brickmakers' (see also Ancylostomiasis) 126.9
    • chronica congenita aregenerativa 284.01
    • complicating pregnancy or childbirth 648.2
    • congenital (following fetal blood loss) 776.5
    • Cooley's (erythroblastic) 282.49
    • crescent - see Disease, sickle-cell
    • Davidson's (refractory) 284.9
    • Diamond-Blackfan (congenital hypoplastic) 284.01
    • drepanocytic (see also Disease, sickle-cell) 282.60
    • due to
      • antineoplastic chemotherapy 285.3
      • blood loss (chronic) 280.0
      • chemotherapy, antineoplastic 285.3
      • defect of Embden-Meyerhof pathway glycolysis 282.3
      • disorder of glutathione metabolism 282.2
      • drug - see Anemia, by type (see also Table of Drugs and Chemicals)
        • chemotherapy, antineoplastic 285.3
      • fetal blood loss 776.5
      • fish tapeworm (D. latum) infestation 123.4
      • glutathione metabolism disorder 282.2
      • hemorrhage (chronic) 280.0
      • hexose monophosphate (HMP) shunt deficiency 282.2
      • impaired absorption 280.9
      • loss of blood (chronic) 280.0
      • myxedema 244.9
      • Necator americanus 126.1
      • prematurity 776.6
      • selective vitamin B12 malabsorption with proteinuria 281.1
    • Dyke-Young type (secondary)
    • dyserythropoietic (congenital) (types I, II, III) 285.8
    • dyshemopoietic (congenital) 285.8
    • Egypt (see also Ancylostomiasis) 126.9
    • elliptocytosis (see also Elliptocytosis) 282.1
    • enzyme deficiency, drug-induced 282.2
    • epidemic (see also Ancylostomiasis) 126.9
    • erythroblastic
    • erythrocytic glutathione deficiency 282.2
    • erythropoietin-resistant (EPO resistant anemia) 285.21
    • essential 285.9
    • Faber's (achlorhydric anemia) 280.9
    • factitious (self-induced bloodletting) 280.0
    • familial erythroblastic (microcytic) 282.49
    • Fanconi's (congenital pancytopenia) 284.09
    • fetal 678.0
      • following blood loss, affecting newborn 776.5
    • fetus or newborn
      • due to
        • ABO
        • Rh
      • following fetal blood loss 776.5
    • fish tapeworm (D. latum) infestation 123.4
    • folate malabsorption, congenital 281.2
    • general 285.9
    • glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency 282.2
    • glutathione-reductase deficiency 282.2
    • Heinz-body, congenital 282.7
    • hemoglobin deficiency 285.9
    • hemolytic 283.9
      • acquired 283.9
        • with hemoglobinuria NEC 283.2
        • autoimmune (cold type) (idiopathic) (primary) (secondary) (symptomatic) (warm type) 283.0
        • due to
          • cold reactive antibodies 283.0
          • drug exposure 283.0
          • warm reactive antibodies 283.0
        • fragmentation 283.19
        • idiopathic (chronic) 283.9
        • infectious 283.19
        • non-autoimmune 283.10
        • toxic 283.19
        • traumatic cardiac 283.19
      • acute 283.9
        • due to enzyme deficiency NEC 282.3
        • fetus or newborn (see also Disease, hemolytic) 773.2
        • Lederer's (acquired infectious hemolytic anemia) 283.19
      • autoimmune (acquired) 283.0
      • chronic 282.9
      • cold type (secondary) (symptomatic) 283.0
      • congenital (spherocytic) (see also Spherocytosis) 282.0
        • nonspherocytic - see Anemia, hemolytic, nonspherocytic, congenital
      • drug-induced 283.0
      • due to
        • cardiac conditions 283.19
        • drugs 283.0
        • enzyme deficiency NEC 282.3
        • presence of shunt or other internal prosthetic device 283.19
        • thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura 446.6
      • elliptocytotic (see also Elliptocytosis) 282.1
      • familial 282.9
      • hereditary 282.9
        • due to enzyme deficiency NEC 282.3
        • specified NEC 282.8
      • idiopathic (chronic) 283.9
      • infectious (acquired) 283.19
      • mechanical 283.19
      • microangiopathic 283.19
      • nonautoimmune 283.10
      • nonspherocytic
      • of or complicating pregnancy 648.2
      • resulting from presence of shunt or other internal prosthetic device 283.19
      • secondary 283.19
      • sickle-cell - see Disease, sickle-cell
      • Stransky-Regala type (Hb-E) (see also Disease, hemoglobin) 282.7
      • symptomatic 283.19
      • toxic (acquired) 283.19
      • uremic (adult) (child) 283.11
      • warm type (secondary) (symptomatic) 283.0
    • hemorrhagic (chronic) 280.0
    • hereditary erythroblast multinuclearity-positive acidified serum test 285.8
    • Herrick's (hemoglobin S disease) 282.61
    • hexokinase deficiency 282.3
    • hookworm (see also Ancylostomiasis) 126.9
    • hypochromic (idiopathic) (microcytic) (normoblastic) 280.9
    • hypoplasia, red blood cells 284.81
    • idiopathic 285.9
    • in (due to) (with)
    • infantile 285.9
    • infective, infectional 285.9
    • intertropical (see also Ancylostomiasis) 126.9
    • Jaksch's (pseudoleukemia infantum) 285.8
    • Joseph-Diamond-Blackfan (congenital hypoplastic) 284.01
    • Lederer's (acquired infectious hemolytic anemia) 283.19
    • leptocytosis (hereditary) 282.49
    • leukoerythroblastic 284.2
    • malabsorption (familial), selective B12 with proteinuria 281.1
    • malarial (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • malignant (progressive) 281.0
    • marsh (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • Mediterranean (with hemoglobinopathy) 282.49
    • microangiopathic hemolytic 283.19
    • miners' (see also Ancylostomiasis) 126.9
    • myelophthisic (normocytic) 284.2
    • newborn (see also Disease, hemolytic) 773.2
      • due to isoimmunization (see also Disease, hemolytic) 773.2
      • late, due to isoimmunization 773.5
      • posthemorrhagic 776.5
    • nonspherocytic hemolytic - see Anemia, hemolytic, nonspherocytic
    • normocytic (infectional) (not due to blood loss) 285.9
    • nutritional (deficiency) 281.9
      • with
        • poor iron absorption 280.9
        • specified deficiency NEC 281.8
      • due to inadequate dietary iron intake 280.1
      • megaloblastic (of infancy) 281.2
    • of or complicating pregnancy 648.2
      • affecting fetus or newborn 760.8
    • orotic aciduric (congenital) (hereditary) 281.4
    • ovalocytosis (hereditary) (see also Elliptocytosis) 282.1
    • paludal (see also Malaria) 084.6
    • pentose phosphate pathway deficiency 282.2
    • pernicious (combined system disease) (congenital) (dorsolateral spinal degeneration) (juvenile) (myelopathy) (neuropathy) (posterior sclerosis) (primary) (progressive) (spleen) 281.0
      • of or complicating pregnancy 648.2
    • pleochromic 285.9
    • postoperative
      • due to (acute) blood loss 285.1
      • other 285.9
    • pressure 285.9
    • primary 285.9
    • profound 285.9
    • pseudoleukemica infantum 285.8
    • pyridoxine-responsive (hypochromic) 285.0
    • pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency 282.3
    • refractoria sideroblastica 238.72
    • Rietti-Greppi-Micheli (thalassemia minor) 282.49
    • septic 285.9
    • sickle-cell (see also Disease, sickle-cell) 282.60
    • sideroblastic (acquired) (any type) (congenital) (drug-induced) (due to disease) (hereditary) (primary) (secondary) (sex-linked hypochromic) (vitamin B6 responsive) 285.0
    • spherocytic (hereditary) (see also Spherocytosis) 282.0
    • thrombocytopenic (see also Thrombocytopenia) 287.5
    • triosephosphate isomerase deficiency 282.3
    • tropical, macrocytic 281.2
    • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis) 017.9
    • von Jaksch's (pseudoleukemia infantum) 285.8
    • Witts' (achlorhydric anemia) 280.9
    • Zuelzer (-Ogden) (nutritional megaloblastic anemia) 281.2
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • hemoglobin (see also Anemia) 285.9
  • Erythrocytopenia 285.9
  • Erythropenia 285.9
  • Findings, (abnormal), without diagnosis (examination) (laboratory test) 796.4
    • hematocrit
  • Hemoglobin - see also condition
    • low NEC 285.9
  • Hydremia 285.9
  • Impoverished blood 285.9
  • Low
    • hemoglobin 285.9
  • Normocytic anemia (infectional) 285.9
  • Oligemia 285.9
  • Oligocythemia 285.9
  • Spanemia 285.9
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