H26.03
H26.03 — Infantile and juvenile nuclear cataract
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H26.03 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for infantile and juvenile nuclear cataract. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
H26.03 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 H26.03
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H26.0. If H26.03 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H26.00Unspecified infantile and juvenile cataract
- H26.01Infantile and juvenile cortical, lamellar, or zonular cataract
- H26.04Anterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract
- H26.05Posterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract
- H26.06Combined forms of infantile and juvenile cataract
- H26.09Other infantile and juvenile cataract
Questions about H26.03
- Is H26.03 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H26.03 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H26.03 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of lens (H25-H28).