When you use the codes for dry AMD (H35.31xx) and wet AMD (H35.32xx), you must use the sixth character to indicate laterality as follows:1 for the...
The codes for dry AMD—H35.31xx—use the seventh character to indicate staging as follows:H35.31x1 for early dry AMD—a combination of multiple small...
When is the retina considered atrophic? The Academy Preferred Practice Pattern1 defines GA as follows:The phenotype of central geographic atrophy,...
The Academy recommends that when coding, you indicate whether the GA involves the center of the fovea: Code H35.31x4 if it does and H35.31x3 if it...
The codes for wet AMD—H35.32xx—use the sixth character to indicate laterality and the seventh character to indicate staging as follows:H35.32x1 for...
62 • SEPTEMBER 2017 Coding for Geographic Atrophy The Academy recommends that when coding, you indicate whether the GA involves the center of the fovea: Code H35.31x4 if it does and H35.31x3 if it
ICD10 codes matching "Macular Degeneration" Codes: = Billable H35.30 Unspecified macular degeneration; H35.31 Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration; H35.311 Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration, right eye; H35.3110 Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration, right eye, stage unspecified; H35.3111 Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration, right eye, early dry stage
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The Academy recommends that when coding, you indicate whether the GA involves the center of the fovea: Code H35.31x4 if it does and H35.31x3 if it doesn’t, with “x” indicating lateral ity. Improved categorization of GA will help in clinical practice and also will lead to a better understanding of the natural history, comorbidities, and visual prognosis associated with the disease.
Why use a diagnosis code in the absence of an approved therapy? Accurate documentation and coding will help researchers and policymakers track the visual impairment and visual function deficits that are associated with the condition. Furthermore, when treatments do become available, you will be ready to code for them.
H35.31x3 for advanced atrophic dry AMD without subfoveal involvement —geographic atrophy (GA) not involving the center of the fovea.
The phenotype of central geographic atrophy, the advanced form of non-neovascular AMD, will have 1 or more zones of well- demarcated RPE and/or choriocapillaris atrophy. Drusen and other pigmentary abnormalities may surround the atrophic areas.
The codes for wet AMD—H35.32xx—use the sixth character to indicate laterality and the seventh character to indicate staging as follows:
These patches enlarge and coalesce and may be associated with a dense paracentral scotoma, thereby limiting tasks such as reading. Patients with GA may demonstrate good visual acuity (VA) until late in the course of the disease, when the fovea becomes progressively atrophic, leading to severe visual acuity decline from central blindness and forcing the patient to use noncentral retina and eccentric fixation to read and perform other visual tasks.
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The Academy recommends that when coding, you indicate whether the GA involves the center of the fovea: Code H35.31x4 if it does and H35.31x3 if it doesn’t, with “x” indicating lateral ity. Improved categorization of GA will help in clinical practice and also will lead to a better understanding of the natural history, comorbidities, and visual prognosis associated with the disease.
Why use a diagnosis code in the absence of an approved therapy? Accurate documentation and coding will help researchers and policymakers track the visual impairment and visual function deficits that are associated with the condition. Furthermore, when treatments do become available, you will be ready to code for them.
H35.31x3 for advanced atrophic dry AMD without subfoveal involvement —geographic atrophy (GA) not involving the center of the fovea.
The phenotype of central geographic atrophy, the advanced form of non-neovascular AMD, will have 1 or more zones of well- demarcated RPE and/or choriocapillaris atrophy. Drusen and other pigmentary abnormalities may surround the atrophic areas.
The codes for wet AMD—H35.32xx—use the sixth character to indicate laterality and the seventh character to indicate staging as follows:
These patches enlarge and coalesce and may be associated with a dense paracentral scotoma, thereby limiting tasks such as reading. Patients with GA may demonstrate good visual acuity (VA) until late in the course of the disease, when the fovea becomes progressively atrophic, leading to severe visual acuity decline from central blindness and forcing the patient to use noncentral retina and eccentric fixation to read and perform other visual tasks.