H33.4

H33.4: Traction detachment of retina

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H33.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for traction detachment of retina. 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.

Proliferative vitreo-retinopathy with retinal detachment

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H33.4

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on H33: Retinal detachments and breaks

detachment of retinal pigment epithelium (H35.72-, H35.73-)

Other codes that can never be billed with H33.4

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

H35.2Other non-diabetic proliferative retinopathy
H43.8Other disorders of vitreous body

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 H33.4

4 child codes. Green means billable.