ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H34 Retinal vascular occlusions › H34.9
Unspecified retinal vascular occlusion
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 Unspecified retinal vascular 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.
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Yellow > jaundice
- Stroke > cryptogenic
- Disease, diseased > artery
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Thrombosis, thrombotic > eye
- Infarct, infarction > cerebellar
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Thrombosis, thrombotic > ophthalmic
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Thrombosis, thrombotic > retina, retinal
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Embolism > eye
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > retinal
- Occlusion, occluded > retina, retinal > vessels
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H34.0 | Transient retinal artery occlusion | Not billable |
| H34.1 | Central retinal artery occlusion | Not billable |
| H34.2 | Other retinal artery occlusions | Not billable |
| H34.8 | Other retinal vascular occlusions | Not billable |