E08.341 — Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema
E08.341 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to codes in subcategory E08.34 to designate laterality of the disease:
- 1
- right eye
- 2
- left eye
- 3
- bilateral
- 9
- unspecified eye
Risk adjustment
E08.341 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How E08.341 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to E08.341.
- Diabetes, diabetic›due to underlying condition›with›retinopathy›nonproliferative›severe›with macular edema
Code to one of these instead E08.341
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- E08.3411Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema, right eye
- E08.3412Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema, left eye
- E08.3413Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema, bilateral
- E08.3419Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema, unspecified eye
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E08.34. If E08.341 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E08.341
- Is E08.341 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. E08.341 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does E08.341 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Diabetes mellitus (E08-E13).