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H04.32

H04.32: Acute dacryocystitis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H04.32 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute dacryocystitis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Acute dacryopericystitis

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H04.32

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on H04.3: Acute and unspecified inflammation of lacrimal passages

  • neonatal dacryocystitis (P39.1)

Written on H04: Disorders of lacrimal system

  • congenital malformations of lacrimal system (Q10.4-Q10.6)

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 H04.32

4 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under H04.3

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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