ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H16.2 Keratoconjunctivitis › H16.26

H16.26

Vernal keratoconjunctivitis, with limbar and corneal involvement

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 4 more specific codes instead:

  • H16.261 Vernal keratoconjunctivitis, with limbar and corneal involvement, right eye
  • H16.262 Vernal keratoconjunctivitis, with limbar and corneal involvement, left eye
  • H16.263 Vernal keratoconjunctivitis, with limbar and corneal involvement, bilateral
  • H16.269 Vernal keratoconjunctivitis, with limbar and corneal involvement, unspecified eye

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Vernal keratoconjunctivitis, with limbar and corneal involvement

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H16.20 Unspecified keratoconjunctivitis Not billable
H16.21 Exposure keratoconjunctivitis Not billable
H16.22 Keratoconjunctivitis sicca, not specified as Sjogren's Not billable
H16.23 Neurotrophic keratoconjunctivitis Not billable
H16.24 Ophthalmia nodosa Not billable
H16.25 Phlyctenular keratoconjunctivitis Not billable
H16.29 Other keratoconjunctivitis Not billable