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H49.3

H49.3: Total (external) ophthalmoplegia

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H49.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for total (external) ophthalmoplegia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above H49.3

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on H49: Paralytic strabismus

  • internal ophthalmoplegia (H52.51-)
  • internuclear ophthalmoplegia (H51.2-)
  • progressive supranuclear ophthalmoplegia (G23.1)

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 H49.3

4 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under H49

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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