E09.359 — Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema
E09.359 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative 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 E09.35 to designate laterality of the disease:
- 1
- right eye
- 2
- left eye
- 3
- bilateral
- 9
- unspecified eye
Risk adjustment
E09.359 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 E09.359 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 E09.359.
- Diabetes, diabetic›due to drug or chemical›with›retinopathy›proliferative
Code to one of these instead E09.359
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- E09.3591Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, right eye
- E09.3592Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, left eye
- E09.3593Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, bilateral
- E09.3599Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular edema, unspecified eye
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E09.35. If E09.359 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- E09.351Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema
- E09.352Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy with traction retinal detachment involving the macula
- E09.353Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy with traction retinal detachment not involving the macula
- E09.354Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy with combined traction retinal detachment and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
- E09.355Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with stable proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Questions about E09.359
- Is E09.359 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. E09.359 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does E09.359 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Diabetes mellitus (E08-E13).