ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H34 Retinal vascular occlusions › H34.1

H34.1

Central retinal artery occlusion

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:

  • H34.10 Central retinal artery occlusion, unspecified eye
  • H34.11 Central retinal artery occlusion, right eye
  • H34.12 Central retinal artery occlusion, left eye
  • H34.13 Central retinal artery occlusion, bilateral

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 Central retinal artery occlusion

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 H34 Retinal vascular occlusions

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • amaurosis fugax (G45.3)

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.

Showing 40 of 80 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H34.0 Transient retinal artery occlusion Not billable
H34.2 Other retinal artery occlusions Not billable
H34.8 Other retinal vascular occlusions Not billable
H34.9 Unspecified retinal vascular occlusion Valid