H44.9 — Unspecified disorder of globe
H44.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified disorder of globe. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H44.9 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.
Medicare coverage
H44.9 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56726Billing and Coding: Ophthalmology: Posterior Segment Imaging (Extended Ophthalmoscopy and Fundus Photography)
- A57071Billing and Coding: Ophthalmology: Posterior Segment Imaging (Extended Ophthalmoscopy and Fundus Photography)
- A57637Billing and Coding: Visual Field Examination
How H44.9 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to H44.9.
- Disease, diseased›eyeball
- Disease, diseased›globe
- Disorder›globe
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H44. If H44.9 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
- H44.8Other disorders of globe
Questions about H44.9
- Is H44.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H44.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H44.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44).