H44.0
H44.0: Purulent endophthalmitis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for purulent endophthalmitis. 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.
- bleb associated endophthalmitis (H59.4-)
Use additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- code to identify organism
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 H44.0
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under H44
- H44.1Other endophthalmitis
- H44.2Degenerative myopia
- H44.3Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globe
- H44.4Hypotony of eye
- H44.5Degenerated conditions of globe
- H44.6Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic
- H44.7Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic
- H44.8Other disorders of globe
- H44.9Unspecified disorder of globe