H44.79
H44.79: Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.79 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H44.79
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above H44.79
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
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 H44.79
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- H44.791Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites, right eye
- H44.792Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites, left eye
- H44.793Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites, bilateral
- H44.799Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic, in other or multiple sites, unspecified eye
Other codes under H44.7
- 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
- H44.75Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in vitreous body