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B00.5

B00.5: Herpesviral ocular disease

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

B00.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for herpesviral ocular disease. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above B00.5

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on B00: Herpesviral [herpes simplex] infections

  • congenital herpesviral infections (P35.2)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above B00.5

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on B00: Herpesviral [herpes simplex] infections

  • anogenital herpesviral infection (A60.-)
  • gammaherpesviral mononucleosis (B27.0-)
  • herpangina (B08.5)

Other codes that can never be billed with B00.5

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • H20.0Acute and subacute iridocyclitis
  • B30Viral conjunctivitis

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 B00.5

5 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under B00

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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