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H02.814

Retained foreign body in left upper eyelid

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Retained foreign body in left upper 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 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
H02.811 Retained foreign body in right upper eyelid Valid
H02.812 Retained foreign body in right lower eyelid Valid
H02.813 Retained foreign body in right eye, unspecified eyelid Valid
H02.815 Retained foreign body in left lower eyelid Valid
H02.816 Retained foreign body in left eye, unspecified eyelid Valid
H02.819 Retained foreign body in unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid Valid