H59.01
H59.01 — Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H59.01 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery. 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.
- Vitreal corneal syndrome
- Vitreous (touch) syndrome
Risk adjustment
H59.01 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 H59.01
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- H59.011Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, right eye
- H59.012Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, left eye
- H59.013Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, bilateral
- H59.019Keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery, unspecified eye
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H59.0. If H59.01 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H59.01
- Is H59.01 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H59.01 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H59.01 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified (H59).