ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H40-H42 › H40.2 Primary angle-closure glaucoma › H40.24

H40.24

Residual stage of angle-closure glaucoma

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:

  • H40.241 Residual stage of angle-closure glaucoma, right eye
  • H40.242 Residual stage of angle-closure glaucoma, left eye
  • H40.243 Residual stage of angle-closure glaucoma, bilateral
  • H40.249 Residual stage of angle-closure glaucoma, unspecified eye

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 Residual stage of angle-closure glaucoma

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H40.20 Unspecified primary angle-closure glaucoma Not billable
H40.21 Acute angle-closure glaucoma Not billable
H40.22 Chronic angle-closure glaucoma Not billable
H40.23 Intermittent angle-closure glaucoma Not billable