H49

Paralytic strabismus

Non-billable header

H49 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Includes

  • 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)
  • nystagmus and other irregular eye movements (H55)
  • internal ophthalmoplegia (H52.51-)
  • internuclear ophthalmoplegia (H51.2-)
  • progressive supranuclear ophthalmoplegia (G23.1)

More specific codes H49

  • H49.0Third [oculomotor] nerve palsyHeader
  • H49.1Fourth [trochlear] nerve palsyHeader
  • H49.2Sixth [abducent] nerve palsyHeader
  • H49.3Total (external) ophthalmoplegiaHeader
  • H49.4Progressive external ophthalmoplegiaHeader
  • H49.8Other paralytic strabismusHeader
  • H49.9Unspecified paralytic strabismusBillable

Related codes

  • H50Other strabismusHeader
  • H51Other disorders of binocular movementHeader
  • H52Disorders of refraction and accommodationHeader

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