ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H02 Other disorders of eyelid › H02.3

H02.3

Blepharochalasis

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:

  • H02.30 Blepharochalasis unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid
  • H02.31 Blepharochalasis right upper eyelid
  • H02.32 Blepharochalasis right lower eyelid
  • H02.33 Blepharochalasis right eye, unspecified eyelid
  • H02.34 Blepharochalasis left upper eyelid
  • H02.35 Blepharochalasis left lower eyelid
  • H02.36 Blepharochalasis left 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 Blepharochalasis

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-)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H02.0 Entropion and trichiasis of eyelid Not billable
H02.1 Ectropion of eyelid Not billable
H02.2 Lagophthalmos Not billable
H02.4 Ptosis of eyelid Not billable
H02.5 Other disorders affecting eyelid function Not billable
H02.6 Xanthelasma of eyelid Not billable
H02.7 Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of eyelid and periocular area Not billable
H02.8 Other specified disorders of eyelid Not billable
H02.9 Unspecified disorder of eyelid Valid