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368.8 - Other Specified Visual Disturbances


The ICD 9 Code for Other specified visual disturbances is listed as 368.8.
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: 368.8
Long Description: Other specified visual disturbances
Short Description: Visual disturbances NEC
Chapter: Diseases Of The Nervous System And Sense Organs
Block: Disorders Of The Eye And Adnexa (360-379)
Related Descriptions: Accommodation phosphene
Afterimage
Blurred disc margin
Blurring of visual image
Conjugated visual deviation
Curtain across vision
Delayed visual maturation
Fading of visual image
Hazy vision
Impairment level of vision
Increased vision
Interference with vision
Lower-order aberration of vision
Lower-order wavefront aberration
Misjudges distances
Monofoveal binocular single vision
Negative dysphotopsia
Optical axis deviation becomes binocular
Palinopsia
Patterns appear interesting
Phosphene
Positive dysphotopsia
Problem of visual accommodation
Quadrafoil wavefront aberration
Reduced visual acuity
Secondary astigmatism
Sees rays
Sees sparks
Simultaneous perception
Staring at diffuse light source
Temporal crescent syndrome
Unilateral visual field constriction (situation)
Visual acuity less than .05 (3/30,20/400) or visual field than 10 degrees, but better than 4.
Visual acuity less than .1 (6/60,20/200) or visual field less than 20 degrees, but better than 3.
Visual acuity less than .3 (6/18,20/70), but better than 2.
Visual acuity perception of light - accurate projection
Visual acuity, no light perception
Visual image fades and reappears
Visual image lingers
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: H53.8 - Other visual disturbances (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 368.8:
368.2 - Diplopia
368.9 - Unspecified visual disturbance