Hypotony of eye due to other ocular disorders

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:

H44.431 Hypotony of eye due to other ocular disorders, right eye
H44.432 Hypotony of eye due to other ocular disorders, left eye
H44.433 Hypotony of eye due to other ocular disorders, bilateral
H44.439 Hypotony of eye due to other ocular disorders, 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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Hypotony of eye due to other ocular disorders

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 > specified disorder NEC

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H44.40	Unspecified hypotony of eye	Valid
H44.41	Flat anterior chamber hypotony of eye	Not billable
H44.42	Hypotony of eye due to ocular fistula	Not billable
H44.44	Primary hypotony of eye	Not billable