H44.1
H44.1: Other endophthalmitis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other 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-)
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- ophthalmia nodosa (H16.2-)
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 H44.1
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under H44
- H44.0Purulent 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