Paralytic strabismus

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 7 more specific codes instead:

H49.0 Third [oculomotor] nerve palsy (also a header)
H49.1 Fourth [trochlear] nerve palsy (also a header)
H49.2 Sixth [abducent] nerve palsy (also a header)
H49.3 Total (external) ophthalmoplegia (also a header)
H49.4 Progressive external ophthalmoplegia (also a header)
H49.8 Other paralytic strabismus (also a header)
H49.9 Unspecified paralytic strabismus

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 Paralytic strabismus

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

internal ophthalmoplegia (H52.51-)
internuclear ophthalmoplegia (H51.2-)
progressive supranuclear ophthalmoplegia (G23.1)

Inherited from the H49-H52 section Disorders of ocular muscles, binocular movement, accommodation and refraction (H49-H52)

Excludes2 - not included here

nystagmus and other irregular eye movements (H55)