ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H18.5 Hereditary corneal dystrophies › H18.55

H18.55

Macular 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:

  • H18.551 Macular corneal dystrophy, right eye
  • H18.552 Macular corneal dystrophy, left eye
  • H18.553 Macular corneal dystrophy, bilateral
  • H18.559 Macular 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 Macular 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 41 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H18.50 Unspecified hereditary corneal dystrophies Not billable
H18.51 Endothelial corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.52 Epithelial (juvenile) corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.53 Granular corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.54 Lattice corneal dystrophy Not billable
H18.59 Other hereditary corneal dystrophies Not billable