Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound 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.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

H05.50 Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of unspecified orbit
H05.51 Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of right orbit
H05.52 Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of left orbit
H05.53 Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of bilateral orbits

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 Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound 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.

Emesis
Retching
Granuloma > talc
Regurgitation > food
Foreign body > granuloma
Retention > foreign body
Disease, diseased > orbit
Reaction > foreign > body NEC
Foreign body > lacrimal punctum
Foreign body > retained > orbit
Aspiration > syndrome of newborn
Regurgitation > gastric contents
Myositis > foreign body granuloma
Pneumonia > neonatal > aspiration
Syndrome > aspiration, of newborn
Asphyxia, asphyxiation > inhalation
Foreign body > retained > retrobulbar
Disorder > orbit > retained foreign body
Foreign body > ocular muscle > old, retained
Foreign body > entering through orifice > eyeball
Foreign body > entering through orifice > lacrimal apparatus
Foreign body > entering through orifice > tear ducts or glands
Foreign body > orbit > old, retained

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
H05.2	Exophthalmic conditions	Not billable
H05.3	Deformity of orbit	Not billable
H05.4	Enophthalmos	Not billable
H05.8	Other disorders of orbit	Not billable
H05.9	Unspecified disorder of orbit	Valid