S05.40

S05.40: Penetrating wound of orbit with or without foreign body, unspecified eye

Non-billable headerICD-10-CMunspecified

S05.40 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for penetrating wound of orbit with or without foreign body, unspecified eye. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.

This code requires a 7th character

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S05

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S05.40

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

Written on S05.4: Penetrating wound of orbit with or without foreign body

retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound in orbit (H05.5-)

Written on S05: Injury of eye and orbit

2nd cranial [optic] nerve injury (S04.0-)
3rd cranial [oculomotor] nerve injury (S04.1-)
open wound of eyelid and periocular area (S01.1-)
orbital bone fracture (S02.1-, S02.3-, S02.8-)
superficial injury of eyelid (S00.1-S00.2)

Other codes that can never be billed with S05.40

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

H44.6Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic
H44.7Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic
S00Superficial injury of head

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 S05.40

3 child codes. Green means billable.