ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H10-H11 › H10.5 Blepharoconjunctivitis › H10.52

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:

• H10.521 Angular blepharoconjunctivitis, right eye
• H10.522 Angular blepharoconjunctivitis, left eye
• H10.523 Angular blepharoconjunctivitis, bilateral
• H10.529 Angular blepharoconjunctivitis, unspecified eye

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 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.

• Abscess > canthus
• Blepharoconjunctivitis > angular

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H10.50	Unspecified blepharoconjunctivitis	Not billable
H10.51	Ligneous conjunctivitis	Not billable
H10.53	Contact blepharoconjunctivitis	Not billable