H21.0

H21.0: Hyphema

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H21.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for hyphema. 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.

traumatic hyphema (S05.1-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above H21.0

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on H21: Other disorders of iris and ciliary body

sympathetic uveitis (H44.1-)

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 H21.0

4 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under H21