ICD to VA Diagnostic Code Lookup

Three coding systems, one cross-reference

Your military or private medical records, VA decision letter, and C&P exam report should list ICD-10 diagnosis codes such as G43.909 or M54.50. Records from before October 2015 often use the older ICD-9 codes such as 250.00 instead; paste those too, and the tool converts each one through its modern ICD-10 equivalent before matching a VA code.

Some systems label entries with a SNOMED CT code instead, such as SNOMED CT 10000006. Those work as well, as long as the record says SNOMED beside the number, because a bare long number could just as easily be a claim or record number. A SNOMED code is not automatically a diagnosis: the same system codes findings, procedures, events and situations, so each entry is labeled for what it is, and only a concept the licensed release calls a disorder is offered a VA code here.

A match is not an award, and not proof of a diagnosis

VA rates a disability and its impacts, or residuals, not the diagnosis itself, so an ICD-10 code does not equal a rating. VA also rates under its own diagnostic codes (38 CFR Part 4), and this tool only correlates the coding systems. A lookup explains what a code means. It cannot establish that a clinician diagnosed you, award a rating, or determine eligibility, and it is not a statement about how your particular claim will be coded. Read the wording and the context in the original record.

For a service-connection claim you generally need three things: a current diagnosis, an in-service event, and a nexus linking the two. This page helps with the paperwork around the first of those, by showing which VA condition a code in your file corresponds to, and by listing the ICD-10 codes to look for when you already know the condition you are claiming.

Why a result may carry no VA code

A code may have no direct match in this reference, several possible matches with no single reliable answer, or a map that needs clinical context the reference does not have. For SNOMED CT, only a concept the licensed release identifies as a disorder is offered a potential VA code; a finding, procedure, event or situation still shows what it is and is still worth recording, without being called a diagnosis. When one source entry maps to several targets, every target keeps its own VA code and condition beside it. Could not be checked right now is a service problem, not evidence that your records lack a condition.

This website's lookup versus the offline Extractor

The translator on this page sends pasted text to our server to be looked up. The separate ICD-10 Diagnosis Extractor is a Windows program that reads files on your own computer; its offline promise belongs to that program, not to this paste box. Nothing on this page asks you to upload a file.

For help with a specific claim, work with a VA-accredited representative.

How many diagnoses in each ICD-10 chapter map to a VA diagnostic code in this reference. These are counts, not a list of clickable chapters. To look up a single code or a symptom, use the Condition Lookup search, which accepts ICD-10 codes directly.