ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H25-H28 › H25.0 Age-related incipient cataract › H25.01

H25.01

Cortical age-related cataract

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

  • H25.011 Cortical age-related cataract, right eye
  • H25.012 Cortical age-related cataract, left eye
  • H25.013 Cortical age-related cataract, bilateral
  • H25.019 Cortical age-related cataract, unspecified eye

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Cortical age-related cataract

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from H25 Age-related cataract

Excludes2 - not included here

  • capsular glaucoma with pseudoexfoliation of lens (H40.1-)

Also known as

  • Senile cataract

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
H25.03 Anterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract Not billable
H25.04 Posterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract Not billable
H25.09 Other age-related incipient cataract Not billable