H44.8
H44.8 — Other disorders of globe
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H44.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other disorders of globe. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
H44.8 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 H44.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H44. If H44.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H44.0Purulent endophthalmitis
- H44.1Other endophthalmitis
- H44.2Degenerative myopia
- H44.3Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globe
- H44.4Hypotony of eye
- H44.5Degenerated conditions of globe
- H44.6Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic
- H44.7Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic
- H44.9Unspecified disorder of globe
Questions about H44.8
- Is H44.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H44.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H44.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44).