H50.61
H50.61 — Brown's sheath syndrome
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H50.61 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for brown's sheath syndrome. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
H50.61 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 H50.61
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H50.6. If H50.61 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H50.60Mechanical strabismus, unspecified
- H50.62Inferior oblique muscle entrapment
- H50.63Inferior rectus muscle entrapment
- H50.64Lateral rectus muscle entrapment
- H50.65Medial rectus muscle entrapment
- H50.66Superior oblique muscle entrapment
- H50.67Superior rectus muscle entrapment
- H50.68Extraocular muscle entrapment, unspecified
- H50.69Other mechanical strabismus
Questions about H50.61
- Is H50.61 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H50.61 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H50.61 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).