ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H10-H11 › H10 Conjunctivitis › H10.9
H10.9
Unspecified conjunctivitis
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified 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.
- Ophthalmitis
- Ophthalmia
- Conjunctivitis NOS
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H10.0 | Mucopurulent conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.1 | Acute atopic conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.2 | Other acute conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.3 | Unspecified acute conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.4 | Chronic conjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.5 | Blepharoconjunctivitis | Not billable |
| H10.8 | Other conjunctivitis | Not billable |