ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H43-H44 › H44 Disorders of globe › H44.2
Degenerative myopia
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:
- H44.20 Degenerative myopia, unspecified eye
- H44.21 Degenerative myopia, right eye
- H44.22 Degenerative myopia, left eye
- H44.23 Degenerative myopia, bilateral
- H44.2A Degenerative myopia with choroidal neovascularization (also a header)
- H44.2B Degenerative myopia with macular hole (also a header)
- H44.2C Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment (also a header)
- H44.2D Degenerative myopia with foveoschisis (also a header)
- H44.2E Degenerative myopia with other maculopathy (also a header)
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 Degenerative myopia
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 H44 Disorders of globe
Includes
- disorders affecting multiple structures of eye
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.
- Ametropia
- Choroiditis
- Neuroretinitis
- Nearsightedness
- Refractive error
- Shortsightedness
- Choroidoretinitis
- Error > refractive
- Uveitis > posterior
- Neurochorioretinitis
- Disorder > refraction > myopia
- Anomaly, anomalous > refraction
- Rupture, ruptured > globe > nontraumatic
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retina
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > uveal tract NOS > posterior
- Terry's syndrome
- Myopia > malignant
- Syndrome > Terry's
- Fuchs' > black spot
- Myopia > pernicious
- Change > retina > myopic
- Myopia > progressive high
- Spots, spotting > Fuchs' black
- Chorioretinitis > progressive myopia
- Disorder > globe > degenerative > myopia
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H44.0 | Purulent endophthalmitis | Not billable |
| H44.1 | Other endophthalmitis | Not billable |
| H44.3 | Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globe | Not billable |
| H44.4 | Hypotony of eye | Not billable |
| H44.5 | Degenerated conditions of globe | Not billable |
| H44.6 | Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic | Not billable |
| H44.7 | Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic | Not billable |
| H44.8 | Other disorders of globe | Not billable |
| H44.9 | Unspecified disorder of globe | Valid |