ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H02.85 Elephantiasis of eyelid › H02.855
Elephantiasis of left lower eyelid
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Elephantiasis of left lower 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.
- Lymphedema
- Lesion > eyelid
- Lesion > canthus
- Disease, diseased > eyelid
- Disorder > eyelid > elephantiasis
- Elephantiasis > eyelid > left > lower
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H02.851 | Elephantiasis of right upper eyelid | Valid |
| H02.852 | Elephantiasis of right lower eyelid | Valid |
| H02.853 | Elephantiasis of right eye, unspecified eyelid | Valid |
| H02.854 | Elephantiasis of left upper eyelid | Valid |
| H02.856 | Elephantiasis of left eye, unspecified eyelid | Valid |
| H02.859 | Elephantiasis of unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid | Valid |