ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H18.55 Macular corneal dystrophy › H18.553
H18.553
Macular corneal dystrophy, bilateral
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2021 to now.
- FY2021 Added to the code set Macular corneal dystrophy, bilateral
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 |
|---|---|---|
| H18.551 | Macular corneal dystrophy, right eye | Valid |
| H18.552 | Macular corneal dystrophy, left eye | Valid |
| H18.559 | Macular corneal dystrophy, unspecified eye | Valid |