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E10.355

E10.355: Type 1 diabetes mellitus with stable proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

E10.355 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for type 1 diabetes mellitus with stable proliferative diabetic retinopathy. 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 E10.35 to designate laterality of the disease:

1
right eye
2
left eye
3
bilateral
9
unspecified eye

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above E10.355

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on E10: Type 1 diabetes mellitus

  • diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition (E08.-)
  • drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus (E09.-)
  • gestational diabetes (O24.4-)
  • hyperglycemia NOS (R73.9)
  • neonatal diabetes mellitus (P70.2)
  • postpancreatectomy diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
  • postprocedural diabetes mellitus (E13.-)
  • secondary diabetes mellitus NEC (E13.-)
  • type 2 diabetes mellitus (E11.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with E10.355

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • E08Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition
  • E09Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus
  • E11Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • E13Other specified diabetes mellitus
  • Q45.3Other congenital malformations of pancreas and pancreatic duct

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Diabetes, diabetic›type 1›with›retinopathy›proliferative›with›stable proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead E10.355

4 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under E10.35

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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