H02.726 — Madarosis of left eye, unspecified eyelid and periocular area
H02.726 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for madarosis of left eye, unspecified eyelid and periocular area. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H02.726
These are not written on H02.726, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing H02.726 with anything listed here is a denial.
Risk adjustment
H02.726 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
H02.726 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 H02.726 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 H02.726.
- Madarosis›left
Code history
H02.726 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H02.72. If H02.726 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H02.721Madarosis of right upper eyelid and periocular area
- H02.722Madarosis of right lower eyelid and periocular area
- H02.723Madarosis of right eye, unspecified eyelid and periocular area
- H02.724Madarosis of left upper eyelid and periocular area
- H02.725Madarosis of left lower eyelid and periocular area
- H02.729Madarosis of unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid and periocular area
Questions about H02.726
- Is H02.726 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H02.726 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H02.726 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).
- What cannot be coded together with H02.726?
- H02.726 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above H02.726 (H02) and apply to it just the same.