H51.8
Other specified disorders of binocular movement
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 12 never code together
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
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
H00-H59chapter
Notes
- Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition
Index entries leading here 14
- Apraxia (classic) (ideational) (ideokinetic) (ideomotor) (motor) (verbal) R48.2
- oculomotor, congenital H51.8
- Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- Cogan's syndrome H16.32
- oculomotor apraxia H51.8
- Spasm (s) , spastic, spasticity R25.2
- Crisis
- oculogyric H51.8
- Deviation (in)
- eye, skew H51.8
- Disturbance (s) — see also Disease
- oculogyric H51.8
- Excess, excessive, excessively
- divergence H51.8
- Insufficiency, insufficient
- divergence H51.8
- Exophoria H50.52
- divergence, excess H51.8
- Esophoria H50.51
- divergence, insufficiency H51.8
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- divergence (nuclear) H51.8
- Oculogyric crisis or disturbance H51.8
- Syndrome — see also Disease
Alongside this code 4 same parent — H51
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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