ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H05.8 Other disorders of orbit › H05.83

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, FY2026 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

• H05.831 Thyroid orbitopathy, right orbit
• H05.832 Thyroid orbitopathy, left orbit
• H05.833 Thyroid orbitopathy, bilateral
• H05.839 Thyroid orbitopathy, unspecified orbit

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.

• Orbitopathy
• Ophthalmopathy, Graves'
• Disease, diseased > eye > thyroid

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H05.81	Cyst of orbit	Not billable
H05.82	Myopathy of extraocular muscles	Not billable
H05.89	Other disorders of orbit	Valid