ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H21 Other disorders of iris and ciliary body › H21.0

H21.0

Hyphema

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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:

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Hyphema

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 H21 Other disorders of iris and ciliary body

Excludes2 - not included here

  • sympathetic uveitis (H44.1-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H21.1 Other vascular disorders of iris and ciliary body Not billable
H21.2 Degeneration of iris and ciliary body Not billable
H21.3 Cyst of iris, ciliary body and anterior chamber Not billable
H21.4 Pupillary membranes Not billable
H21.5 Other and unspecified adhesions and disruptions of iris and ciliary body Not billable
H21.8 Other specified disorders of iris and ciliary body Not billable
H21.9 Unspecified disorder of iris and ciliary body Valid