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H44 - Disorders of globe

ICD-10-CM Chapter 7: Diseases of the eye and adnexa · H43-H44 Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44) · Top-level category · FY2027

Coding Guidance

H44 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 10 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

IncludesFrom H44

Conditions this code covers.

  • disorders affecting multiple structures of eye
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

More Specific Codes (10)

H44.0Purulent endophthalmitis→H44.1Other endophthalmitis→H44.2Degenerative myopia→H44.3Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globe→H44.4Hypotony of eye→H44.5Degenerated conditions of globe→H44.6Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic→H44.7Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic→H44.8Other disorders of globe→H44.9Unspecified disorder of globe→

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