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H05.01

H05.01: Cellulitis of orbit

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H05.01 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cellulitis of orbit. 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.

  • Abscess of orbit

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H05.01

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on H05: Disorders of orbit

  • congenital malformation of orbit (Q10.7)

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 H05.01

4 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under H05.0

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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