H59.09Other disorders of the eye following cataract surgery

H59.09 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other disorders of the eye following cataract surgery. It belongs to category H59 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified), block H59 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified) and chapter 7 (diseases of the eye and adnexa). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within H59.0, choose H59.09 (Other disorders of the eye following cataract surgery) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: keratopathy (bullous aphakic) following cataract surgery (H59.01), cataract (lens) fragments in eye following cataract surgery (H59.02) and Cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery (H59.03).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: H59.091 (surgery), H59.092 (surgery), H59.093 (bilateral) and H59.099 (surgery).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.