ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H18 Other disorders of cornea › H18.9

H18.9

Unspecified disorder of cornea

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Unspecified disorder of cornea

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
H18.0 Corneal pigmentations and deposits Not billable
H18.1 Bullous keratopathy Not billable
H18.2 Other and unspecified corneal edema Not billable
H18.3 Changes of corneal membranes Not billable
H18.4 Corneal degeneration Not billable
H18.5 Hereditary corneal dystrophies Not billable
H18.6 Keratoconus Not billable
H18.7 Other and unspecified corneal deformities Not billable
H18.8 Other specified disorders of cornea Not billable