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H01.012 - Ulcerative blepharitis right lower eyelid
ICD-10-CM Chapter 7: Diseases of the eye and adnexa · H00-H05 Disorders of eyelid, lacrimal system and orbit (H00-H05) · Subcategory of H01.01 · FY2027
Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom H01.0
Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.
- blepharoconjunctivitis (H10.5-)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom H00-H05 Disorders of eyelid, lacrimal system and orbit (H00-H05)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- open wound of eyelid (S01.1-)
- superficial injury of eyelid (S00.1-, S00.2-)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter H00-H59
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)
NotesFrom Chapter H00-H59
Instructional notes from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition
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Chapter Information
Other codes in H01.01
Codes at the same level as H01.012
- Ulcerative blepharitis right upper eyelidH01.011
- Ulcerative blepharitis right eye, unspecified eyelidH01.013
- Ulcerative blepharitis left upper eyelidH01.014
- Ulcerative blepharitis left lower eyelidH01.015
- Ulcerative blepharitis left eye, unspecified eyelidH01.016
- Ulcerative blepharitis unspecified eye, unspecified eyelidH01.019
- Ulcerative blepharitis right eye, upper and lower eyelidsH01.01A
- Ulcerative blepharitis left eye, upper and lower eyelidsH01.01B