ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H59 › H59.8 Other intraoperative and... › H59.81
Chorioretinal scars after surgery for detachment
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
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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 Chorioretinal scars after surgery for detachment
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.
- Cicatrix
- Choroidopathy
- Cicatrix > retina
- Scar, scarring > macula
- Scar, scarring > retina
- Scar, scarring > choroid
- Disorder > choroid > scar
- Disorder > postprocedural
- Complication > postoperative
- Disorder > eye > postprocedural
- Scar, scarring > posterior pole
- Scar, scarring > chorioretinal > postsurgical
- Complication > postprocedural > chorioretinal scars following retinal surgery
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H59.88 | Other intraoperative complications of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| H59.89 | Other postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified | Valid |