H43.81 — Vitreous degeneration
H43.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for vitreous degeneration. 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.
- Vitreous detachment
Risk adjustment
H43.81 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.
How H43.81 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to H43.81.
- Detachment›vitreous(body)
Code to one of these instead H43.81
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H43.8. If H43.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H43.81
- Is H43.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H43.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H43.81 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44).