ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H49-H52 › H50.6 Mechanical strabismus › H50.67

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, FY2024 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

• H50.671 Superior rectus muscle entrapment, right eye
• H50.672 Superior rectus muscle entrapment, left eye
• H50.679 Superior rectus muscle entrapment, unspecified eye

What has happened to this code

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)

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.

• Entrapment > muscle > eye > rectus > superior

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H50.60	Mechanical strabismus, unspecified	Valid
H50.61	Brown's sheath syndrome	Not billable
H50.62	Inferior oblique muscle entrapment	Not billable
H50.63	Inferior rectus muscle entrapment	Not billable
H50.64	Lateral rectus muscle entrapment	Not billable
H50.65	Medial rectus muscle entrapment	Not billable
H50.66	Superior oblique muscle entrapment	Not billable
H50.68	Extraocular muscle entrapment, unspecified	Not billable
H50.69	Other mechanical strabismus	Valid