ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H43-H44 › H44.44 Primary hypotony of eye › H44.443
H44.443
Primary hypotony of eye, 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 Primary hypotony of eye, 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 > primary
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H44.441 | Primary hypotony of right eye | Valid |
| H44.442 | Primary hypotony of left eye | Valid |
| H44.449 | Primary hypotony of unspecified eye | Valid |