H44.75
H44.75 — Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.75 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
H44.75 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 H44.75
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- H44.751Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body, right eye
- H44.752Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body, left eye
- H44.753Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body, bilateral
- H44.759Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body, unspecified eye
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H44.7. If H44.75 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
- H44.73Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in lens
- H44.74Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in posterior wall of globe
- H44.79Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites
Questions about H44.75
- Is H44.75 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H44.75 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H44.75 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44).