ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H43-H44 › H44.2C Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment › H44.2C2
H44.2C2
Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment, left 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 2018 to now.
- FY2018 Added to the code set Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment, 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 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 > with > retinal detachment
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H44.2C1 | Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment, right eye | Valid |
| H44.2C3 | Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment, bilateral | Valid |
| H44.2C9 | Degenerative myopia with retinal detachment, unspecified eye | Valid |