ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H25-H28 › H26 Other cataract › H26.8
H26.8
Other specified cataract
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 specified 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)
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
- Intumescence, lens
- Calcification > lens
- Glass-blower's disease
- Cataract > irradiational
- Opacity, opacities > lens
- Deposit > metallic in lens
- Disorder > lens > cataract
- Pseudoexfoliation, capsule
- Degeneration, degenerative > lens
- Disease, diseased > glass-blower's
- Cataract > electric
- Cataract > heat ray
- Cataract > specified NEC
- Cataract > glass-blower's
- Cataract > due to > radiation
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H26.0 | Infantile and juvenile cataract | Not billable |
| H26.1 | Traumatic cataract | Not billable |
| H26.2 | Complicated cataract | Not billable |
| H26.3 | Drug-induced cataract | Not billable |
| H26.4 | Secondary cataract | Not billable |
| H26.9 | Unspecified cataract | Valid |