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
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E08.341
These are not written on E08.341, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing E08.341 with anything listed here is a denial.
Written on E08 — Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition
- drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus (E09.-)
- gestational diabetes (O24.4-)
- neonatal diabetes mellitus (P70.2)
- postpancreatectomy diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
- postprocedural diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
- secondary diabetes mellitus NEC (E13.-)
- type 1 diabetes mellitus (E10.-)
- type 2 diabetes mellitus (E11.-)
Other codes that can never be billed with E08.341
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at E08.341. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading E08.341 alone.
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 history
E08.341 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
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).
- What cannot be coded together with E08.341?
- E08.341 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above E08.341 (E08) and apply to it just the same.