Peripheral pterygium, progressive, unspecified eye

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Peripheral pterygium, progressive, unspecified eye

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 H11 Other disorders of conjunctiva

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.

Pterygium > peripheral > progressive

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H11.051	Peripheral pterygium, progressive, right eye	Valid
H11.052	Peripheral pterygium, progressive, left eye	Valid
H11.053	Peripheral pterygium, progressive, bilateral	Valid