Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

E08.341 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema (also a header)
E08.349 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from E08 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition

Excludes1 - never coded here

drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus (E09.-)
gestational diabetes (O24.4-)
neonatal diabetes mellitus (P70.2)
postpancreatectomy diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
postprocedural diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
secondary diabetes mellitus NEC (E13.-)
type 1 diabetes mellitus (E10.-)
type 2 diabetes mellitus (E11.-)

Use additional code

code to identify control using:
injectable non-insulin antidiabetic drugs (Z79.85)
insulin (Z79.4)
oral antidiabetic drugs (Z79.84)
oral hypoglycemic drugs (Z79.84)

Code first

the underlying condition, such as:
congenital rubella (P35.0)
Cushing's syndrome (E24.-)
cystic fibrosis (E84.-)
malignant neoplasm (C00-C96)
malnutrition (E40-E46)
pancreatitis and other diseases of the pancreas (K85-K86.-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
E08.31	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with unspecified diabetic retinopathy	Not billable
E08.32	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy	Not billable
E08.33	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy	Not billable
E08.35	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with proliferative diabetic retinopathy	Not billable
E08.36	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic cataract	Valid
E08.37	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic macular edema, resolved following treatment	Not billable
E08.39	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with other diabetic ophthalmic complication	Valid