ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H15-H22 › H21.5 Other and unspecified adhesions... › H21.56
Pupillary abnormalities
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
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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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Pupillary abnormalities
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.
- Herniation
- Sarcoepiplocele
- Disorder > ciliary body
- Ectopic, ectopia > pupil
- Rupture, ruptured > iris
- Elevated, elevation > GFR
- Deformity > pupil > acquired
- Gangrene, gangrenous > hernia
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated
- Rupture, ruptured > obstructed
- Irregular, irregularity > pupil
- Hernia, hernial > with > gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > with > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > with > obstruction
- Incarceration, incarcerated > hernia
- Strangulation, strangulated > hernia
- Incarceration, incarcerated > rupture
- Strangulation, strangulated > rupture
- Hernia, hernial > with > incarceration
- Hernia, hernial > with > strangulation
- Hernia, hernial > intestine, intestinal
- Disorder > iris > pupillary > abnormality
- Test, tests, testing > blood-drug > positive
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive > with gangrene
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > finding
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated > with gangrene
- Test, tests, testing > blood-alcohol > positive
- Rupture, ruptured > nontraumatic, meaning hernia
- Strangulation, strangulated > stomach due to hernia
- Incarceration, incarcerated > hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > intestine > with hernia
- Elevated, elevation > finding on laboratory examination
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > fecal > with hernia
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > chemistry, blood > drugs
Showing 40 of 44 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H21.50 | Unspecified adhesions of iris | Not billable |
| H21.51 | Anterior synechiae (iris) | Not billable |
| H21.52 | Goniosynechiae | Not billable |
| H21.53 | Iridodialysis | Not billable |
| H21.54 | Posterior synechiae (iris) | Not billable |
| H21.55 | Recession of chamber angle | Not billable |