ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H05 Disorders of orbit › H05.2

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 7 more specific codes instead:

• H05.20 Unspecified exophthalmos
• H05.21 Displacement (lateral) of globe (also a header)
• H05.22 Edema of orbit (also a header)
• H05.23 Hemorrhage of orbit (also a header)
• H05.24 Constant exophthalmos (also a header)
• H05.25 Intermittent exophthalmos (also a header)
• H05.26 Pulsating exophthalmos (also a header)

What has happened to this code

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.

• Proptosis
• Congestive
• Disease, diseased > orbit
• Disorder > orbit > exophthalmos
• Congestion, congestive > orbit, orbital
• Exophthalmos

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H05.0	Acute inflammation of orbit	Not billable
H05.1	Chronic inflammatory disorders of orbit	Not billable
H05.3	Deformity of orbit	Not billable
H05.4	Enophthalmos	Not billable
H05.5	Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit	Not billable
H05.8	Other disorders of orbit	Not billable
H05.9	Unspecified disorder of orbit	Valid