ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H01.01 Ulcerative blepharitis › H01.015
Ulcerative blepharitis left lower eyelid
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Ulcerative blepharitis left lower 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.
- Infiltrate, infiltration > eyelid
- Infection, infected, infective > eyelid
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > eyelid > blepharitis
- Blepharitis > ulcerative > left > lower
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H01.011 | Ulcerative blepharitis right upper eyelid | Valid |
| H01.012 | Ulcerative blepharitis right lower eyelid | Valid |
| H01.013 | Ulcerative blepharitis right eye, unspecified eyelid | Valid |
| H01.014 | Ulcerative blepharitis left upper eyelid | Valid |
| H01.016 | Ulcerative blepharitis left eye, unspecified eyelid | Valid |
| H01.019 | Ulcerative blepharitis unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid | Valid |
| H01.01A | Ulcerative blepharitis right eye, upper and lower eyelids | Valid |
| H01.01B | Ulcerative blepharitis left eye, upper and lower eyelids | Valid |