ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H46-H47 › H46.0 Optic papillitis › H46.03
Optic papillitis, bilateral
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 Optic papillitis, bilateral
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 H46 Optic neuritis
Excludes2 - not included here
- ischemic optic neuropathy (H47.01-)
- neuromyelitis optica [Devic] (G36.0)
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.
- Neuritis > optic > papillitis
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > optic
- Neuritis > cranial nerve > second or optic
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > optic nerve
- Papillitis > optic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H46.00 | Optic papillitis, unspecified eye | Valid |
| H46.01 | Optic papillitis, right eye | Valid |
| H46.02 | Optic papillitis, left eye | Valid |