ICD-10-CM › C00-D49 › C69-C72 › C69 Malignant neoplasm of eye and adnexa › C69.0

C69.0

Malignant neoplasm of conjunctiva

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • C69.00 Malignant neoplasm of unspecified conjunctiva
  • C69.01 Malignant neoplasm of right conjunctiva
  • C69.02 Malignant neoplasm of left conjunctiva

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Malignant neoplasm of conjunctiva

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from C69 Malignant neoplasm of eye and adnexa

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • malignant neoplasm of connective tissue of eyelid (C49.0)
  • malignant neoplasm of eyelid (skin) (C43.1-, C44.1-)
  • malignant neoplasm of optic nerve (C72.3-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
C69.1 Malignant neoplasm of cornea Not billable
C69.2 Malignant neoplasm of retina Not billable
C69.3 Malignant neoplasm of choroid Not billable
C69.4 Malignant neoplasm of ciliary body Not billable
C69.5 Malignant neoplasm of lacrimal gland and duct Not billable
C69.6 Malignant neoplasm of orbit Not billable
C69.8 Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of eye and adnexa Not billable
C69.9 Malignant neoplasm of unspecified site of eye Not billable