ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H18.5 Hereditary corneal dystrophies › H18.51

H18.51

Endothelial corneal dystrophy

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Billable FY2016 to FY2020, and a category header from FY2021.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

  • H18.511 Endothelial corneal dystrophy, right eye
  • H18.512 Endothelial corneal dystrophy, left eye
  • H18.513 Endothelial corneal dystrophy, bilateral
  • H18.519 Endothelial corneal dystrophy, unspecified eye

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Endothelial corneal dystrophy
  2. FY2021 Stopped being billable

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.

Showing 40 of 43 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H18.50 Unspecified hereditary corneal dystrophies Not billable
H18.52 Epithelial (juvenile) corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.53 Granular corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.54 Lattice corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.55 Macular corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.59 Other hereditary corneal dystrophies Not billable