H44.73
H44.73 — Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in lens
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.73 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in lens. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
H44.73 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.
Code to one of these instead H44.73
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H44.7. If H44.73 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H44.70Unspecified retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic
- H44.71Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in anterior chamber
- H44.72Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in iris or ciliary body
- H44.74Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in posterior wall of globe
- H44.75Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body
- H44.79Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites
Questions about H44.73
- Is H44.73 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H44.73 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H44.73 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44).