ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H10-H11 › H10.4 Chronic conjunctivitis › H10.43
Chronic follicular conjunctivitis
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 Chronic follicular conjunctivitis
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 H10 Conjunctivitis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- keratoconjunctivitis (H16.2-)
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.
- Conjunctivitis NOS > chronic > follicular
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H10.40 | Unspecified chronic conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.41 | Chronic giant papillary conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.42 | Simple chronic conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.44 | Vernal conjunctivitis | Valid |
| H10.45 | Other chronic allergic conjunctivitis | Valid |