Other age-related incipient 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:

H25.091 Other age-related incipient cataract, right eye
H25.092 Other age-related incipient cataract, left eye
H25.093 Other age-related incipient cataract, bilateral
H25.099 Other age-related incipient 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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other age-related incipient 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.

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 > incipient

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H25.01	Cortical age-related cataract	Not billable
H25.03	Anterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract	Not billable
H25.04	Posterior subcapsular polar age-related cataract	Not billable