ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H05.02 Osteomyelitis of orbit › H05.023
Osteomyelitis of bilateral orbits
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 Osteomyelitis of bilateral orbits
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 |
|---|---|---|
| H05.021 | Osteomyelitis of right orbit | Valid |
| H05.022 | Osteomyelitis of left orbit | Valid |
| H05.029 | Osteomyelitis of unspecified orbit | Valid |