H05.5

H05.5: Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H05.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

current penetrating wound of orbit (S05.4-)

Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

retained foreign body of eyelid (H02.81-)
retained intraocular foreign body (H44.6-, H44.7-)

Use additional code

Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

code to identify the type of retained foreign body (Z18.-)

Inclusion terms

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

Retrobulbar foreign body

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H05.5

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 H05.5

4 child codes. Green means billable.