Guidance
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on, implantation of a corneal graft–keratoprosthesis for severe corneal opacity in wet blinking eyes in November 2015.
OPCS-4
C46.4 Insertion of prosthesis into cornea
Excludes: Insertion of therapeutic contact lens (C51.5)In addition the relevant code from category
H17.- Corneal scars and opacities would be recorded.
The Clinical Classifications Service has advised NICE that currently these are the most suitable OPCS-4 codes to describe this procedure. The OPCS-4 classification is designed to categorise procedures for analysis and it is not always possible to identify a procedure uniquely.
ICD-10
In addition the ICD-10 code H17.Corneal scars and opacities would be recorded.