H04.6

H04.6: Other changes of lacrimal passages

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H04.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other changes of lacrimal passages. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H04.6

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

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 H04.6

2 child codes. Green means billable.

H04.61Lacrimal fistula
H04.69Other changes of lacrimal passages

Other codes under H04

H04.0Dacryoadenitis
H04.1Other disorders of lacrimal gland
H04.2Epiphora
H04.3Acute and unspecified inflammation of lacrimal passages
H04.4Chronic inflammation of lacrimal passages
H04.5Stenosis and insufficiency of lacrimal passages
H04.8Other disorders of lacrimal system
H04.9Disorder of lacrimal system, unspecified