ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H21.22 Degeneration of ciliary body › H21.222
Degeneration of ciliary body, left eye
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 Degeneration of ciliary body, left 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 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.
- Disorder > ciliary body > degeneration
- Degeneration, degenerative > ciliary body
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H21.221 | Degeneration of ciliary body, right eye | Valid |
| H21.223 | Degeneration of ciliary body, bilateral | Valid |
| H21.229 | Degeneration of ciliary body, unspecified eye | Valid |