ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H25-H28 › H26.49 Other secondary cataract › H26.493
Other secondary 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 Other secondary 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 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
- Ring > Soemmerring's
- Opacity, opacities > lens
- Disorder > lens > cataract
- Cataracta > membranacea > accreta
- Degeneration, degenerative > lens
- Membrane, membranous > secondary cataract
- Cataract > secondary > specified NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H26.491 | Other secondary cataract, right eye | Valid |
| H26.492 | Other secondary cataract, left eye | Valid |
| H26.499 | Other secondary cataract, unspecified eye | Valid |