Cicatricial 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.

FY2019 Added to the code set Cicatricial 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.

Lesion > eyelid
Lesion > canthus
Disease, diseased > eyelid
Disorder > eyelid > function > lagophthalmos
Lagophthalmos > cicatricial > bilateral, upper and lower eyelids

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H02.211	Cicatricial lagophthalmos right upper eyelid	Valid
H02.212	Cicatricial lagophthalmos right lower eyelid	Valid
H02.213	Cicatricial lagophthalmos right eye, unspecified eyelid	Valid
H02.214	Cicatricial lagophthalmos left upper eyelid	Valid
H02.215	Cicatricial lagophthalmos left lower eyelid	Valid
H02.216	Cicatricial lagophthalmos left eye, unspecified eyelid	Valid
H02.219	Cicatricial lagophthalmos unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid	Valid
H02.21A	Cicatricial lagophthalmos right eye, upper and lower eyelids	Valid
H02.21B	Cicatricial lagophthalmos left eye, upper and lower eyelids	Valid