H04.8
H04.8 — Other disorders of lacrimal system
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H04.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other disorders of lacrimal system. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
H04.8 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.
Code to one of these instead H04.8
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H04. If H04.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- H04.6Other changes of lacrimal passages
- H04.9Disorder of lacrimal system, unspecified
Questions about H04.8
- Is H04.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H04.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H04.8 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).