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281.1 - Other Vitamin B12 Deficiency Anemia


The ICD 9 Code for Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemia is listed as 281.1.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
ICD 9 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: 281.1
Long Description: Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Short Description: B12 defic anemia NEC
Chapter: Diseases Of The Blood And Blood-Forming Organs
Block: Other deficiency anemias (281-281)
Related Descriptions: Megaloblastic anemia due to vegetarianism
Megaloblastic anemia due to vitamin B>12< malabsorption with proteinuria
Selective malabsorption of cyanocobalamin
Vegan's anemia
Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to dietary causes
Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to malabsorption with proteinuria
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: D51.1 - Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to selective vitamin B12 malabsorption with proteinuria (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: D51.3 - Other dietary vitamin B12 deficiency anemia (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: D51.8 - Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemias (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 281.1:
281.0 - Pernicious anemia
281.2 - Folate-deficiency anemia
281.3 - Other specified megaloblastic anemias not elsewhere classified
281.4 - Protein-deficiency anemia
281.8 - Anemia associated with other specified nutritional deficiency
281.9 - Unspecified deficiency anemia