H40.83
H40.83: Aqueous misdirection
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H40.83 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for aqueous misdirection. 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.
- Malignant glaucoma
Other codes that can never be billed with H40.83
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- H40.2Primary angle-closure glaucoma
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 H40.83
4 child codes. Green means billable.