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H40.1211
Billable

Low-tension glaucoma, right eye (mild stage)

Chapter 7: Diseases of the eye and adnexa

Billable Code

H40.1211 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for normal tension glaucoma
normal tension glaucoma
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Normal Tension Glaucoma (NTG)

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Excludes1

3 items

From H40:

  • absolute glaucoma (H44.51-)
  • congenital glaucoma (Q15.0)
  • traumatic glaucoma due to birth injury (P15.3)

Excludes2

11 items

From H00-H59:

  • 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

1 item

From H00-H59:

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

7th Character Notes

6 items

From H40.12:

  • One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to each code in subcategory H40.12 to designate the stage of glaucoma
  • 0: stage unspecified
  • 1: mild stage
  • 2: moderate stage
  • 3: severe stage
  • 4: indeterminate stage
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