H50.33 — Intermittent monocular exotropia
H50.33 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for intermittent monocular exotropia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with H50.33
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at H50.33. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading H50.33 alone.
- H50.1Exotropia
Risk adjustment
H50.33 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.
How H50.33 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 H50.33.
- Strabismus›divergent concomitant›monocular›intermittent
Code to one of these instead H50.33
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H50.3. If H50.33 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H50.33
- Is H50.33 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H50.33 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H50.33 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of ocular muscles, binocular movement, accommodation and refraction (H49-H52).