ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H55-H57 › H57 Other disorders of eye and adnexa › H57.1

H57.1

Ocular pain

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 4 more specific codes instead:

  • H57.10 Ocular pain, unspecified eye
  • H57.11 Ocular pain, right eye
  • H57.12 Ocular pain, left eye
  • H57.13 Ocular pain, bilateral

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 Ocular pain

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H57.0 Anomalies of pupillary function Not billable
H57.8 Other specified disorders of eye and adnexa Not billable
H57.9 Unspecified disorder of eye and adnexa Valid