ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H35 Other retinal disorders › H35.0
Background retinopathy and retinal vascular changes
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:
- H35.00 Unspecified background retinopathy
- H35.01 Changes in retinal vascular appearance (also a header)
- H35.02 Exudative retinopathy (also a header)
- H35.03 Hypertensive retinopathy (also a header)
- H35.04 Retinal micro-aneurysms, unspecified (also a header)
- H35.05 Retinal neovascularization, unspecified (also a header)
- H35.06 Retinal vasculitis (also a header)
- H35.07 Retinal telangiectasis (also a header)
- H35.09 Other intraretinal microvascular abnormalities
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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Background retinopathy and retinal vascular changes
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 H35 Other retinal disorders
Excludes2 - not included here
- diabetic retinal disorders (E08.311-E08.359, E09.311-E09.359, E10.311-E10.359, E11.311-E11.359, E13.311-E13.359)
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.
- Arteriolith
- Mesarteritis
- Atheromatosis
- Angiosclerosis
- Arteriofibrosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Thromboarteritis
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Arteritis > senile
- Hardening > artery
- Arteriolar sclerosis
- Arteritis > deformans
- Endarteritis > senile
- Ossification > artery
- Arteritis > obliterans
- Atheroma, atheromatous
- Calcification > artery
- Calcification > medial
- Destruction, destructive
- Endarteritis > deformans
- Change > arteriosclerotic
- Damage > arteriosclerotic
- Endarteritis > obliterans
- Plaque > artery, arterial
- Calcification > Mönckeberg's
- Occlusion, occluded > artery
- Gangrene, gangrenous > senile
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > senile
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > capillary
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > general
- Atheroma, atheromatous > artery
- Disorder > retina > retinopathy
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > vascular
- Stenosis, stenotic > artery NEC
- Ischemia, ischemic > limb, critical
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > Mönckeberg's
- Atrophy, atrophic > arteriosclerotic
- Disease, diseased > arteriosclerotic
- Atheroma, atheromatous > degeneration
- Degeneration, degenerative > vascular
Showing 40 of 81 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H35.1 | Retinopathy of prematurity | Not billable |
| H35.2 | Other non-diabetic proliferative retinopathy | Not billable |
| H35.3 | Degeneration of macula and posterior pole | Not billable |
| H35.4 | Peripheral retinal degeneration | Not billable |
| H35.5 | Hereditary retinal dystrophy | Not billable |
| H35.6 | Retinal hemorrhage | Not billable |
| H35.7 | Separation of retinal layers | Not billable |
| H35.8 | Other specified retinal disorders | Not billable |
| H35.9 | Unspecified retinal disorder | Valid |