E70.31
E70.31 — Ocular albinism
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
E70.31 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for ocular albinism. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with E70.31
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at E70.31. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading E70.31 alone.
- Q15Other congenital malformations of eye
Risk adjustment
E70.31 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.
Code to one of these instead E70.31
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share E70.3. If E70.31 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about E70.31
- Is E70.31 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. E70.31 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does E70.31 sit in the tabular list?
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89), in the block Metabolic disorders (E70-E88).