ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H43-H44 › H44.2 Degenerative myopia › H44.21
H44.21
Degenerative myopia, right 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 Degenerative myopia, right 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 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
- Terry's syndrome
- Choroidoretinitis
- Error > refractive
- Myopia > malignant
- Syndrome > Terry's
- Fuchs' > black spot
- Myopia > pernicious
- Uveitis > posterior
- Neurochorioretinitis
- Change > retina > myopic
- Myopia > progressive high
- Disorder > refraction > myopia
- Spots, spotting > Fuchs' black
- Anomaly, anomalous > refraction
- Chorioretinitis > progressive myopia
- Disorder > globe > degenerative > myopia
- Rupture, ruptured > globe > nontraumatic
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retina
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > uveal tract NOS > posterior
- Myopia > degenerative > right eye
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H44.20 | Degenerative myopia, unspecified eye | Valid |
| H44.22 | Degenerative myopia, left eye | Valid |
| H44.23 | Degenerative myopia, bilateral | Valid |
| H44.2A | Degenerative myopia with choroidal neovascularization | Not billable |
| H44.2B | Degenerative myopia with macular hole | Not billable |
| H44.2C | Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment | Not billable |
| H44.2D | Degenerative myopia with foveoschisis | Not billable |
| H44.2E | Degenerative myopia with other maculopathy | Not billable |