ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H05.0 Acute inflammation of orbit › H05.02
Osteomyelitis of orbit
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:
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 Osteomyelitis of orbit
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 H05 Disorders of orbit
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital malformation of orbit (Q10.7)
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.
- Osteitis
- Osteopathy
- Diaphysitis
- Endosteitis
- Periostitis
- Sequestration
- Abscess > bone
- Abscess > serous
- Osteoperiostitis
- Dactylitis > bone
- Osteitis > Garr's
- Sequestrum > bone
- Abscess > scapular
- Sequestrum > orbit
- Ganglion > periosteal
- Osteomyelitis > Garr's
- Pearl-worker's disease
- Abscess > subperiosteal
- Formation > sequestrum in bone
- Osteomyelitis > nonsuppurating
- Abscess > bone > chronic or old
- Disorder > orbit > inflammation
- Abscess > periosteum, periosteal
- Periostosis > with osteomyelitis
- Disease, diseased > pearl-worker's
- Necrosis, necrotic > orbit, orbital
- Osteitis > sclerotic, nonsuppurative
- Infection, infected, infective > bone
- Suppuration, suppurative > pericranial
- Garré's disease, osteitis, osteomyelitis
- Osteomyelitis > sclerosing, nonsuppurative
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > bone
- Fistula > bone > with osteomyelitis, chronic
- Infection, infected, infective > periorbital
- Granuloma > bone > from residual foreign body
- Infection, infected, infective > orbit, orbital
- Abscess > periosteum, periosteal > with osteomyelitis
- Congestion, congestive > orbit, orbital > inflammatory
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > bone
- Abscess > periosteum, periosteal > with osteomyelitis > acute
Showing 40 of 51 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H05.00 | Unspecified acute inflammation of orbit | Valid |
| H05.01 | Cellulitis of orbit | Not billable |
| H05.03 | Periostitis of orbit | Not billable |
| H05.04 | Tenonitis of orbit | Not billable |