H44.20 — Degenerative myopia, unspecified eye
H44.20 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for degenerative myopia, unspecified eye. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H44.20 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
H44.20 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A57637Billing and Coding: Visual Field Examination
How H44.20 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to H44.20.
- Myopia›degenerative(malignant)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H44.2. If H44.20 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about H44.20
- Is H44.20 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H44.20 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H44.20 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44).