Absolute glaucoma

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:

H44.511 Absolute glaucoma, right eye
H44.512 Absolute glaucoma, left eye
H44.513 Absolute glaucoma, bilateral
H44.519 Absolute glaucoma, 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 Absolute glaucoma

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.

Rupture, ruptured > globe > nontraumatic
Glaucoma > absolute
Disorder > globe > degenerated condition > absolute glaucoma

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H44.50	Unspecified degenerated conditions of globe	Valid
H44.52	Atrophy of globe	Not billable
H44.53	Leucocoria	Not billable