ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H25-H28 › H26.21 Cataract with neovascularization › H26.212
Cataract with neovascularization, left eye
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 Cataract with neovascularization, left eye
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)
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
- After-cataract
- Intumescence, lens
- Soemmerring's ring
- Glaucomatous flecks
- Flecks, glaucomatous
- Ring > Soemmerring's
- Cataracta > sunflower
- Cataracta > complicata
- Cataract > heterochromic
- Heterochromia > cataract
- Opacity, opacities > lens
- Disorder > lens > cataract
- Cataract > in > eye disease
- Chalcosis > crystalline lens
- Cataracta > membranacea > accreta
- Degeneration, degenerative > lens
- Cataract > due to > ocular disorder
- Cataract > with > neovascularization
- Cataract > in > chronic iridocyclitis
- Cataract > secondary > to eye disease
- Membrane, membranous > secondary cataract
- Cataract > complicated > with > neovascularization
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H26.211 | Cataract with neovascularization, right eye | Valid |
| H26.213 | Cataract with neovascularization, bilateral | Valid |
| H26.219 | Cataract with neovascularization, unspecified eye | Valid |