ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H35.312 Nonexudative age-related macular... › H35.3120

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2017 onwards.

What has happened to this code

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.

• Behr's disease
• Macula > degeneration
• Retinitis > disciformis
• Kuhnt-Junius degeneration
• Disorder > retina > degeneration
• Detachment > retina > pigment epithelium
• Disorder > retina > macular degeneration
• Degeneration, degenerative > eye, macular
• Degeneration, degenerative > Kuhnt-Junius
• Degeneration, degenerative > retina > macula
• Degeneration, degenerative > retina > Kuhnt-Junius
• Degeneration, degenerative > retina > posterior pole
• Degeneration, degenerative > macula, macular > nonexudative
• Degeneration, degenerative > macula, macular > dry age-related
• Degeneration, degenerative > macula, macular > atrophic age-related

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H35.3121	Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration, left eye, early dry stage	Valid
H35.3122	Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration, left eye, intermediate dry stage	Valid
H35.3123	Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration, left eye, advanced atrophic without subfoveal involvement	Valid
H35.3124	Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration, left eye, advanced atrophic with subfoveal involvement	Valid