Unspecified disorder of globe

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Unspecified disorder of globe

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
Disorder > globe
Disease, diseased > globe
Disease, diseased > eyeball

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H44.0	Purulent endophthalmitis	Not billable
H44.1	Other endophthalmitis	Not billable
H44.2	Degenerative myopia	Not billable
H44.3	Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globe	Not billable
H44.4	Hypotony of eye	Not billable
H44.5	Degenerated conditions of globe	Not billable
H44.6	Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic	Not billable
H44.7	Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic	Not billable
H44.8	Other disorders of globe	Not billable