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H59.331

Postprocedural hematoma of right 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 FY2017 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

  1. FY2017 Added to the code set Postprocedural hematoma of right 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
H59.332 Postprocedural hematoma of left eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure Valid
H59.333 Postprocedural hematoma of eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure, bilateral Valid
H59.339 Postprocedural hematoma of unspecified eye and adnexa following an ophthalmic procedure Valid