H35.06
H35.06 — Retinal vasculitis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H35.06 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for retinal vasculitis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Eales disease
- Retinal perivasculitis
Risk adjustment
H35.06 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 H35.06
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H35.0. If H35.06 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H35.00Unspecified background retinopathy
- H35.01Changes in retinal vascular appearance
- H35.02Exudative retinopathy
- H35.03Hypertensive retinopathy
- H35.04Retinal micro-aneurysms, unspecified
- H35.05Retinal neovascularization, unspecified
- H35.07Retinal telangiectasis
- H35.09Other intraretinal microvascular abnormalities
Questions about H35.06
- Is H35.06 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H35.06 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H35.06 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of choroid and retina (H30-H36).