ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H34.81 Central retinal vein occlusion › H34.813

H34.813

Central retinal vein occlusion, bilateral

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 only, and a category header from FY2017.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • H34.8130 Central retinal vein occlusion, bilateral, with macular edema
  • H34.8131 Central retinal vein occlusion, bilateral, with retinal neovascularization
  • H34.8132 Central retinal vein occlusion, bilateral, stable

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 Central retinal vein occlusion, bilateral
  2. FY2017 Stopped being billable

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H34.811 Central retinal vein occlusion, right eye Not billable
H34.812 Central retinal vein occlusion, left eye Not billable
H34.819 Central retinal vein occlusion, unspecified eye Not billable