H02.819 — Retained foreign body in unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid
H02.819 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for retained foreign body in unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H02.819 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
H02.819 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 H02.819 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 H02.819.
- Foreign body›retained›eyelid
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H02.81. If H02.819 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H02.811Retained foreign body in right upper eyelid
- H02.812Retained foreign body in right lower eyelid
- H02.813Retained foreign body in right eye, unspecified eyelid
- H02.814Retained foreign body in left upper eyelid
- H02.815Retained foreign body in left lower eyelid
- H02.816Retained foreign body in left eye, unspecified eyelid
Questions about H02.819
- Is H02.819 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H02.819 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H02.819 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).