ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H59 › H codes › H59

H59

Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 6 more specific codes instead:

  • H59.0 Disorders of the eye following cataract surgery (also a header)
  • H59.1 Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of eye and adnexa complicating a procedure (also a header)
  • H59.2 Accidental puncture and laceration of eye and adnexa during a procedure (also a header)
  • H59.3 Postprocedural hemorrhage, hematoma, and seroma of eye and adnexa following a procedure (also a header)
  • H59.4 Inflammation (infection) of postprocedural bleb (also a header)
  • H59.8 Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified (also a header)

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • mechanical complication of intraocular lens (T85.2)
  • mechanical complication of other ocular prosthetic devices, implants and grafts (T85.3)
  • pseudophakia (Z96.1)
  • secondary cataracts (H26.4-)

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.