ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H00.0 Hordeolum (externum) (internum) of eyelid › H00.03

H00.03

Abscess of eyelid

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 7 more specific codes instead:

  • H00.031 Abscess of right upper eyelid
  • H00.032 Abscess of right lower eyelid
  • H00.033 Abscess of eyelid right eye, unspecified eyelid
  • H00.034 Abscess of left upper eyelid
  • H00.035 Abscess of left lower eyelid
  • H00.036 Abscess of eyelid left eye, unspecified eyelid
  • H00.039 Abscess of eyelid unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid

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 Abscess of eyelid

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 the H00-H05 section Disorders of eyelid, lacrimal system and orbit (H00-H05)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • open wound of eyelid (S01.1-)
  • superficial injury of eyelid (S00.1-, S00.2-)

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
H00.01 Hordeolum externum Not billable
H00.02 Hordeolum internum Not billable