Ocular hypertension, left 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 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 Ocular hypertension, 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 H40 Glaucoma

Excludes1 - never coded here

absolute glaucoma (H44.51-)
congenital glaucoma (Q15.0)
traumatic glaucoma due to birth injury (P15.3)

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.

htn
high bp
Labor
Raised
Childbirth
Parturition
Accouchement
Presentation, fetal
Hypertensive urgency
Delivery > obstructed
High > blood pressure
Toxemia > of pregnancy
Urgency > hypertensive
Blood > pressure > high
High > arterial tension
Toxemia > pre-eclamptic
Hyperpiesis, hyperpiesia
Tension > arterial, high
Proteinuria > pre-eclamptic
Birth > complications in mother
Disease, diseased > hypertensive
Delivery > complicated > by > tear
Elevated, elevation > blood pressure
Puerperal, puerperium > pre-eclampsia
Delivery > complicated > by > bleeding
Albuminuria, albuminuric > pre-eclamptic
Delivery > complicated > by > perforation
Pregnancy > complicated by > hypertension
Delivery > complicated > by > metrorrhexis
Disease, diseased > vascular > hypertensive
Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > labor
Delivery > complicated > by > disruptio uteri
Pre-eclampsia > with pre-existing hypertension
Pregnancy > complicated by > presentation, fetal
Degeneration, degenerative > vascular > hypertensive
Delivery > complicated > by > hypertension, hypertensive
Test, tests, testing > blood pressure > abnormal reading
Hypertension, hypertensive > complicating > pregnancy > with edema
Delivery > complicated > by > injury > nonobstetric > caused by abuse
Hypertension, hypertensive > gestational > with significant proteinuria

Showing 40 of 48 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H40.051	Ocular hypertension, right eye	Valid
H40.053	Ocular hypertension, bilateral	Valid
H40.059	Ocular hypertension, unspecified eye	Valid