Disorders of globe
Non-billable header
H44 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- disorders affecting multiple structures of eye
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- 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)
More specific codes H44
- H44.0Purulent endophthalmitisHeader
- H44.1Other endophthalmitisHeader
- H44.2Degenerative myopiaHeader
- H44.3Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globeHeader
- H44.4Hypotony of eyeHeader
- H44.5Degenerated conditions of globeHeader
- H44.6Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magneticHeader
- H44.7Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagneticHeader
- H44.8Other disorders of globeHeader
- H44.9Unspecified disorder of globeBillable
Related codes
- H43Disorders of vitreous bodyHeader