ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H49-H52 › H50 Other strabismus › H50.6
H50.6
Mechanical 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.
Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:
- H50.60 Mechanical strabismus, unspecified
- H50.61 Brown's sheath syndrome (also a header)
- H50.62 Inferior oblique muscle entrapment (also a header)
- H50.63 Inferior rectus muscle entrapment (also a header)
- H50.64 Lateral rectus muscle entrapment (also a header)
- H50.65 Medial rectus muscle entrapment (also a header)
- H50.66 Superior oblique muscle entrapment (also a header)
- H50.67 Superior rectus muscle entrapment (also a header)
- H50.68 Extraocular muscle entrapment, unspecified (also a header)
- H50.69 Other mechanical 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 Mechanical 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.
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
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H50.0 | Esotropia | Not billable |
| H50.1 | Exotropia | 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 |
| H50.8 | Other specified strabismus | Not billable |
| H50.9 | Unspecified strabismus | Valid |