ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H25-H28 › H25.04 Posterior subcapsular polar... › H25.043
Posterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract, 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 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 Posterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract, bilateral
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.
- Cataracta
- Water > clefts
- Intumescence, lens
- Cataract > age-related
- Opacity, opacities > lens
- Disorder > lens > cataract
- Cataract > senile > coronary
- Cataract > senile > punctate
- Degeneration, degenerative > lens
- Cataract > senile > polar subcapsular
- Cataract > senile > incipient > subcapsular
- Cataract > senile > subcapsular polar > posterior
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H25.041 | Posterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract, right eye | Valid |
| H25.042 | Posterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract, left eye | Valid |
| H25.049 | Posterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract, unspecified eye | Valid |