ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H25-H28 › H26 Other cataract › H26.2

H26.2

Complicated 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:

  • H26.20 Unspecified complicated cataract
  • H26.21 Cataract with neovascularization (also a header)
  • H26.22 Cataract secondary to ocular disorders (degenerative) (inflammatory) (also a header)
  • H26.23 Glaucomatous flecks (subcapsular) (also a header)

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 Complicated 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 H26 Other cataract

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • congenital cataract (Q12.0)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H26.0 Infantile and juvenile cataract Not billable
H26.1 Traumatic cataract Not billable
H26.3 Drug-induced cataract Not billable
H26.4 Secondary cataract Not billable
H26.8 Other specified cataract Valid
H26.9 Unspecified cataract Valid