ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H34.2 Other retinal artery occlusions › H34.23

H34.23

Retinal artery branch 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:

  • H34.231 Retinal artery branch occlusion, right eye
  • H34.232 Retinal artery branch occlusion, left eye
  • H34.233 Retinal artery branch occlusion, bilateral
  • H34.239 Retinal artery branch occlusion, unspecified eye

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 Retinal artery branch 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
H34.21 Partial retinal artery occlusion Not billable