A18.5
A18.5: Tuberculosis of eye
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
A18.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for tuberculosis of eye. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- lupus vulgaris of eyelid (A18.4)
Other codes that can never be billed with A18.5
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead A18.5
6 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under A18
- A18.0Tuberculosis of bones and joints
- A18.1Tuberculosis of genitourinary system
- A18.2Tuberculous peripheral lymphadenopathy
- A18.3Tuberculosis of intestines, peritoneum and mesenteric glands
- A18.4Tuberculosis of skin and subcutaneous tissue
- A18.6Tuberculosis of (inner) (middle) ear
- A18.7Tuberculosis of adrenal glands
- A18.8Tuberculosis of other specified organs