H44.5
H44.5: Degenerated conditions of globe
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for degenerated conditions of globe. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with H44.5
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- H40Glaucoma
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 H44.5
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under H44
- H44.0Purulent endophthalmitis
- H44.1Other endophthalmitis
- H44.2Degenerative myopia
- H44.3Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globe
- H44.4Hypotony of eye
- H44.6Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic
- H44.7Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic
- H44.8Other disorders of globe
- H44.9Unspecified disorder of globe