Convergence insufficiency and excess

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 2 more specific codes instead:

H51.11 Convergence insufficiency
H51.12 Convergence excess

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 Convergence insufficiency and excess

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
H51.0	Palsy (spasm) of conjugate gaze	Valid
H51.2	Internuclear ophthalmoplegia	Not billable
H51.8	Other specified disorders of binocular movement	Valid
H51.9	Unspecified disorder of binocular movement	Valid