Chapter 7: Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59)

ICD-10-CM 2027 chapter 7 contains 12 code blocks with 2,677 billable codes.

Code blocks

Block	Title	Billable
`H00-H05`	Disorders of eyelid, lacrimal system and orbit	574
`H10-H11`	Disorders of conjunctiva	167
`H15-H22`	Disorders of sclera, cornea, iris and ciliary body	497
`H25-H28`	Disorders of lens	119
`H30-H36`	Disorders of choroid and retina	410
`H40-H42`	Glaucoma	253
`H43-H44`	Disorders of vitreous body and globe	188
`H46-H47`	Disorders of optic nerve and visual pathways	92
`H49-H52`	Disorders of ocular muscles, binocular movement, accommodation and refraction	150
`H53-H54`	Visual disturbances and blindness	128
`H55-H57`	Other disorders of eye and adnexa	33
`H59`	Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of eye and adnexa, not elsewhere classified (H59)	66

Excludes2 (not included here):

certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)
endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)
injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
neoplasms (C00-D49)
symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)

Notes:

Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition