ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H33.02 Retinal detachment with multiple breaks › H33.023

H33.023

Retinal detachment with multiple breaks, bilateral

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Retinal detachment with multiple breaks, 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 H33 Retinal detachments and breaks

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • detachment of retinal pigment epithelium (H35.72-, H35.73-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H33.021 Retinal detachment with multiple breaks, right eye Valid
H33.022 Retinal detachment with multiple breaks, left eye Valid
H33.029 Retinal detachment with multiple breaks, unspecified eye Valid