ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H59 › H59.0 Disorders of the eye following... › H59.01
Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery
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 4 more specific codes instead:
- H59.011 Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, right eye
- H59.012 Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, left eye
- H59.013 Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, bilateral
- H59.019 Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, unspecified eye
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 Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery
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 H59 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified
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.
- Pitting
- Lipedema
- Retention > water
- Disorder > postprocedural
- Vitreous > touch syndrome
- Complication > postoperative
- Disorder > eye > postprocedural
- Edema, edematous > macula > cystoid, following cataract surgery
- Syndrome > vitreous
- Vitreal corneal syndrome
- Syndrome > vitreal corneal
- Keratopathy > bullous, following cataract surgery
- Complication > postprocedural > following cataract surgery > vitreous syndrome
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H59.02 | Cataract (lens) fragments in eye following cataract surgery | Not billable |
| H59.03 | Cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery | Not billable |
| H59.09 | Other disorders of the eye following cataract surgery | Not billable |