ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H43-H44 › H44.42 Hypotony of eye due to ocular fistula › H44.423
Hypotony of eye due to ocular fistula, bilateral
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 Hypotony of eye due to ocular fistula, bilateral
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.
- Fistula > eyeball
- Obliteration > eye, anterior chamber
- Hypotonia, hypotonicity, hypotony > eye
- Rupture, ruptured > globe > nontraumatic
- Disorder > globe > hypotony > due to > ocular fistula
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H44.421 | Hypotony of right eye due to ocular fistula | Valid |
| H44.422 | Hypotony of left eye due to ocular fistula | Valid |
| H44.429 | Hypotony of unspecified eye due to ocular fistula | Valid |