H26.05
H26.05: Posterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H26.05 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for posterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead H26.05
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- H26.051Posterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract, right eye
- H26.052Posterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract, left eye
- H26.053Posterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract, bilateral
- H26.059Posterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract, unspecified eye
Other codes under H26.0
- H26.00Unspecified infantile and juvenile cataract
- H26.01Infantile and juvenile cortical, lamellar, or zonular cataract
- H26.03Infantile and juvenile nuclear cataract
- H26.04Anterior subcapsular polar infantile and juvenile cataract
- H26.06Combined forms of infantile and juvenile cataract
- H26.09Other infantile and juvenile cataract