ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H01 Other inflammation of eyelid › H01.8

H01.8

Other specified inflammations 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.

Billable FY2016 to FY2025, and a category header from FY2026.

Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:

  • H01.81 Other specified inflammation of right upper eyelid
  • H01.82 Other specified inflammation of right lower eyelid
  • H01.83 Other specified inflammation of right eye, unspecified eyelid
  • H01.84 Other specified inflammation of left upper eyelid
  • H01.85 Other specified inflammation of left lower eyelid
  • H01.86 Other specified inflammation of left eye, unspecified eyelid
  • H01.89 Other specified inflammation of unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid
  • H01.8A Other specified inflammation of right eye, upper and lower eyelids
  • H01.8B Other specified inflammation of left eye, upper and lower eyelids

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Other specified inflammations of eyelid
  2. FY2026 Stopped being billable

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
H01.0 Blepharitis Not billable
H01.1 Noninfectious dermatoses of eyelid Not billable
H01.9 Unspecified inflammation of eyelid Valid