Disorders of lacrimal system

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 9 more specific codes instead:

H04.0 Dacryoadenitis (also a header)
H04.1 Other disorders of lacrimal gland (also a header)
H04.2 Epiphora (also a header)
H04.3 Acute and unspecified inflammation of lacrimal passages (also a header)
H04.4 Chronic inflammation of lacrimal passages (also a header)
H04.5 Stenosis and insufficiency of lacrimal passages (also a header)
H04.6 Other changes of lacrimal passages (also a header)
H04.8 Other disorders of lacrimal system (also a header)
H04.9 Disorder of lacrimal system, unspecified

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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Disorders of lacrimal system

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

congenital malformations of lacrimal system (Q10.4-Q10.6)

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-)