E08.349: Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema
E08.349 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without 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 E08.349
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
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 E08.349
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Diabetes, diabetic›due to underlying condition›with›retinopathy›nonproliferative›severe
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead E08.349
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- E08.3491Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, right eye
- E08.3492Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, left eye
- E08.3493Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, bilateral
- E08.3499Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, unspecified eye