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H44.642 - Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in posterior wall of globe, left eye

ICD-10-CM Chapter 7: Diseases of the eye and adnexa · H43-H44 Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44) · Subcategory of H44.64 · FY2027

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom H44.6

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • current intraocular foreign body (S05.-)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom H44.6

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.81-)
  • retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit (H05.5-)
  • retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic (H44.7-)
Use Additional CodeFrom H44.6

Add a secondary code to identify the associated condition or cause when it is documented.

  • code to identify magnetic foreign body (Z18.11)
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

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