H44.63
Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in lens
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
Index entries leading here 1
Alongside this code 6 same parent — H44.6
H44.60 Unsp retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic category H44.61 Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in anterior chamber category H44.62 Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in iris or ciliary body category H44.64 Retained (old) magnetic fb in posterior wall of globe category H44.65 Retained (old) magnetic foreign body in vitreous body category H44.69 Retained (old) intraoc fb, magnet, in oth or multiple sites category
Subordinate codes 4
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