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H02.20C

Unspecified lagophthalmos, bilateral, upper and lower eyelids

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2019 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2019 to now.

  1. FY2019 Added to the code set Unspecified lagophthalmos, bilateral, upper and lower eyelids

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 H02 Other disorders of eyelid

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • congenital malformations of eyelid (Q10.0-Q10.3)

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
H02.201 Unspecified lagophthalmos right upper eyelid Valid
H02.202 Unspecified lagophthalmos right lower eyelid Valid
H02.203 Unspecified lagophthalmos right eye, unspecified eyelid Valid
H02.204 Unspecified lagophthalmos left upper eyelid Valid
H02.205 Unspecified lagophthalmos left lower eyelid Valid
H02.206 Unspecified lagophthalmos left eye, unspecified eyelid Valid
H02.209 Unspecified lagophthalmos unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid Valid
H02.20A Unspecified lagophthalmos right eye, upper and lower eyelids Valid
H02.20B Unspecified lagophthalmos left eye, upper and lower eyelids Valid