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H50.1

Exotropia

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 9 more specific codes instead:

  • H50.10 Unspecified exotropia
  • H50.11 Monocular exotropia (also a header)
  • H50.12 Monocular exotropia with A pattern (also a header)
  • H50.13 Monocular exotropia with V pattern (also a header)
  • H50.14 Monocular exotropia with other noncomitancies (also a header)
  • H50.15 Alternating exotropia
  • H50.16 Alternating exotropia with A pattern
  • H50.17 Alternating exotropia with V pattern
  • H50.18 Alternating exotropia with other noncomitancies

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Exotropia

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 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)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H50.0 Esotropia Not billable
H50.2 Vertical strabismus Not billable
H50.3 Intermittent heterotropia Not billable
H50.4 Other and unspecified heterotropia Not billable
H50.5 Heterophoria Not billable
H50.6 Mechanical strabismus Not billable
H50.8 Other specified strabismus Not billable
H50.9 Unspecified strabismus Valid