H44.6
Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 15 never code together
H44.6code
H00-H59chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)E09.3-E10.3-E11.3-E13.3-
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)S05.-
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
- syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)A50.01A50.3-A51.43A52.71
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 3
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Alongside this code 9 same parent — H44
H44.0 Purulent endophthalmitis category H44.1 Other endophthalmitis category H44.2 Degenerative myopia category H44.3 Other and unspecified degenerative disorders of globe category H44.4 Hypotony of eye category H44.5 Degenerated conditions of globe category H44.7 Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic category H44.8 Other disorders of globe category H44.9 Unspecified disorder of globe
Subordinate codes 7
H44.60 Unsp retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic H44.61 Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in anterior chamber H44.62 Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in iris or ciliary body H44.63 Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in lens H44.64 Retained (old) magnetic fb in posterior wall of globe H44.65 Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in vitreous body H44.69 Retained (old) intraoc fb, magnet, in oth or multiple sites
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