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H59.312

Postprocedural hemorrhage of left eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Postprocedural hemorrhage and hematoma of left eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure
  2. FY2017 Description revised Postprocedural hemorrhage and hematoma of left eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure Postprocedural hemorrhage of left eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H59.311 Postprocedural hemorrhage of right eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure Valid
H59.313 Postprocedural hemorrhage of eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure, bilateral Valid
H59.319 Postprocedural hemorrhage of unspecified eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure Valid