H01.009 — Unspecified blepharitis unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid
H01.009 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified blepharitis unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H01.009 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
H01.009 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A57637Billing and Coding: Visual Field Examination
How H01.009 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to H01.009.
- Blepharitis(angularis) (ciliaris) (eyelid) (marginal) (nonulcerative)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H01.00. If H01.009 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H01.001Unspecified blepharitis right upper eyelid
- H01.002Unspecified blepharitis right lower eyelid
- H01.003Unspecified blepharitis right eye, unspecified eyelid
- H01.004Unspecified blepharitis left upper eyelid
- H01.005Unspecified blepharitis left lower eyelid
- H01.006Unspecified blepharitis left eye, unspecified eyelid
- H01.00AUnspecified blepharitis right eye, upper and lower eyelids
- H01.00BUnspecified blepharitis left eye, upper and lower eyelids
Questions about H01.009
- Is H01.009 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H01.009 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H01.009 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of eyelid, lacrimal system and orbit (H00-H05).