H59.4
H59.4: Inflammation (infection) of postprocedural bleb
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H59.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for inflammation (infection) of postprocedural bleb. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- filtering (vitreous) bleb after glaucoma surgery status (Z98.83)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Postprocedural blebitis
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H59.4
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on H59: Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified
Other codes that can never be billed with H59.4
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 H59.4
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under H59
- H59.0Disorders of the eye following cataract surgery
- H59.1Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of eye and adnexa complicating a procedure
- H59.2Accidental puncture and laceration of eye and adnexa during a procedure
- H59.3Postprocedural hemorrhage, hematoma, and seroma of eye and adnexa following a procedure
- H59.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified