H59.81Chorioretinal scars after surgery for detachment

H59.81 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for chorioretinal scars after surgery for detachment. 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 H59.8 (other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified), H59.81 is specifically for chorioretinal scars after surgery for detachment. Related codes cover other intraoperative complications of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified (H59.88) and other postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified (H59.89).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: H59.811 (right eye), H59.812 (left eye), H59.813 (bilateral) and H59.819 (unspecified eye).

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