Q15.0
Q15.0: Congenital glaucoma
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q15.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for congenital glaucoma. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Q15.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Axenfeld's anomaly
- Buphthalmos
- Glaucoma of childhood
- Glaucoma of newborn
- Hydrophthalmos
- Keratoglobus, congenital, with glaucoma
- Macrocornea with glaucoma
- Macrophthalmos in congenital glaucoma
- Megalocornea with glaucoma
Other codes that can never be billed with Q15.0
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.
Medicare coverage
Q15.0 is named in 18 Medicare coverage policies: 18 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52432Billing and Coding: Insertion of anterior segment aqueous drainage device, without extraocular reservoir, external approach (0192T 66183)
- A53060Billing and Coding: Ophthalmology: Extended Ophthalmoscopy and Fundus Photography
- A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
- A56457Billing and Coding: Corneal Pachymetry
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Buphthalmia, buphthalmos(congenital)
- Hydrophthalmos
- Anomaly, anomalous›Axenfeld's
- Atresia, atretic›iris, filtration angle
- Axenfeld's›anomaly or syndrome
- Glaucoma›childhood
- Glaucoma›congenital
- Glaucoma›infantile
- Glaucoma›newborn
- Macrocornea›with glaucoma
- Macrophthalmos›in congenital glaucoma
- Megalocornea›with glaucoma
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.