H44.2
H44.2: Degenerative myopia
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for degenerative myopia. 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 myopia
Other codes that can never be billed with H44.2
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- H52.1Myopia
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 H44.2
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- H44.20Degenerative myopia, unspecified eye
- H44.21Degenerative myopia, right eye
- H44.22Degenerative myopia, left eye
- H44.23Degenerative myopia, bilateral
- H44.2ADegenerative myopia with choroidal neovascularization
- H44.2BDegenerative myopia with macular hole
- H44.2CDegenerative myopia with retinal detachment
- H44.2DDegenerative myopia with foveoschisis
- H44.2EDegenerative myopia with other maculopathy
Other codes under H44
- H44.0Purulent endophthalmitis
- H44.1Other endophthalmitis
- 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