Chronic inflammation of lacrimal passages

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 3 more specific codes instead:

H04.41 Chronic dacryocystitis (also a header)
H04.42 Chronic lacrimal canaliculitis (also a header)
H04.43 Chronic lacrimal mucocele (also a header)

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 Chronic inflammation of lacrimal passages

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 H04 Disorders of lacrimal system

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-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H04.0	Dacryoadenitis	Not billable
H04.1	Other disorders of lacrimal gland	Not billable
H04.2	Epiphora	Not billable
H04.3	Acute and unspecified inflammation of lacrimal passages	Not billable
H04.5	Stenosis and insufficiency of lacrimal passages	Not billable
H04.6	Other changes of lacrimal passages	Not billable
H04.8	Other disorders of lacrimal system	Not billable
H04.9	Disorder of lacrimal system, unspecified	Valid