ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H59 › H59.03 Cystoid macular edema following... › H59.032
Cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery, left eye
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 Cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery, left eye
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
- Complication > postprocedural > following cataract surgery > cystoid macular edema
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H59.031 | Cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery, right eye | Valid |
| H59.033 | Cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery, bilateral | Valid |
| H59.039 | Cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery, unspecified eye | Valid |