H21.2

H21.2: Degeneration of iris and ciliary body

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H21.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for degeneration of iris and ciliary body. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above H21.2

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 H21.2

8 child codes. Green means billable.

H21.21Degeneration of chamber angle
H21.22Degeneration of ciliary body
H21.23Degeneration of iris (pigmentary)
H21.24Degeneration of pupillary margin
H21.25Iridoschisis
H21.26Iris atrophy (essential) (progressive)
H21.27Miotic pupillary cyst
H21.29Other iris atrophy

Other codes under H21

H21.0Hyphema
H21.1Other vascular disorders of iris and ciliary body
H21.3Cyst of iris, ciliary body and anterior chamber
H21.4Pupillary membranes
H21.5Other and unspecified adhesions and disruptions of iris and ciliary body
H21.8Other specified disorders of iris and ciliary body
H21.9Unspecified disorder of iris and ciliary body