Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic macular edema, resolved following treatment

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, FY2017 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

E08.37X1 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic macular edema, resolved following treatment, right eye
E08.37X2 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic macular edema, resolved following treatment, left eye
E08.37X3 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic macular edema, resolved following treatment, bilateral
E08.37X9 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic macular edema, resolved following treatment, unspecified eye

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

FY2017 Added to the code set Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic macular edema, resolved following treatment

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.-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Pitting
Comatose
Lipedema
Cataracta
Unconscious
Glomerulitis
Glomerulopathy
Klebs' disease
Retention > water
Coma > in diabetes
Intumescence, lens
Mellitus, diabetes
Cataract > diabetic
Coma > hyperosmolar
Coma > hypoglycemic
Coma > ketoacidotic
Kimmelstiel disease
Cataract > snowflake
Cataracta > diabetic
Coma > hyperglycemic
Retinitis > diabetic
Coma > insulin-induced
Glomerular > nephritis
Ketosis NEC > diabetic
Retinopathy > diabetic
Arthropathy > Charcot's
Charcot's > arthropathy
Hypoglycemia > diabetic
Ketoacidosis > diabetic
Cataract > in > diabetes
Change > bone > diabetic
Gastroparesis > diabetic
Opacity, opacities > lens
Polyneuropathy > diabetic
Arthropathy > diabetic NEC
Disease, diseased > Klebs'
Disorder > lens > cataract
Gastroparalysis > diabetic
Arthropathy > in > diabetes
Disease, diseased > Willis'

Showing 40 of 93 index phrases.

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
E08.34	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe 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
E08.39	Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with other diabetic ophthalmic complication	Valid