ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H18.5 Hereditary corneal dystrophies › H18.52
H18.52
Epithelial (juvenile) 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.
Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Epithelial (juvenile) corneal dystrophy
- 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.
- Leukoma
- Behr's disease
- Nebula, cornea
- Stargardt's disease
- Macula > degeneration
- Retinitis > disciformis
- Disorder > cornea > scar
- Keloid, cheloid > cornea
- Macula > cornea, corneal
- Kuhnt-Junius degeneration
- Heredodegeneration, macular
- Formation > hyalin in cornea
- Disorder > retina > dystrophy
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > cornea
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Disorder > retina > retinopathy
- Disorder > cornea > degeneration
- Disorder > retina > degeneration
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Macula > degeneration > hereditary
- Retinopathy > pigmentary, congenital
- Scar, scarring > cornea > xerophthalmic
- Detachment > retina > pigment epithelium
- Disorder > retina > macular degeneration
- Opacity, opacities > cornea > hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > eye, macular
- Degeneration, degenerative > Kuhnt-Junius
- Degeneration, degenerative > chorioretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > tapetoretinal
- Opacity, opacities > cornea > degenerative
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > macula
- Degeneration, degenerative > Bruch's membrane
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > pigmentary
- Degeneration, degenerative > choroid > hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > Kuhnt-Junius
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > posterior pole
- Degeneration, degenerative > cornea > familial, hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > eye, macular > congenital or hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > macula, macular > congenital or hereditary
Showing 40 of 41 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H18.50 | Unspecified hereditary corneal dystrophies | Not billable |
| H18.51 | Endothelial 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 |