2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code H50.89

Other specified strabismus

ICD-10-CM Code:
H50.89
ICD-10 Code for:
Other specified strabismus
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
Chronic Condition Indicator: [1]
Not chronic
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Code Classification

  • Diseases of the eye and adnexa
    (H00–H59)
    • Disorders of ocular muscles, binocular movement, accommodation and refraction
      (H49-H52)
      • Other strabismus
        (H50)

H50.89 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other specified strabismus. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Approximate Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

  • Accommodative strabismus
  • Alternating hypertropia
  • Congenital absence of radius
  • Congenital pseudostrabismus
  • Constant vertical heterotropia
  • Cyclotropia
  • Dissociated vertical deviation
  • Duane anomaly, myopathy, scoliosis syndrome
  • Duane retraction syndrome with congenital deafness
  • Duane syndrome with vertical deviation
  • Duane-radial ray syndrome
  • Duane's syndrome
  • Duane's syndrome, type 1
  • Duane's syndrome, type 2
  • Duane's syndrome, type 3
  • Duane's syndrome, type 3
  • Duane's syndrome, type 3
  • Excyclotropia
  • Hypertropia
  • Incomitant hypertropia
  • Incomitant hypotropia
  • Incyclotropia
  • Manifest vertical squint
  • Manifest vertical squint, eye down
  • Manifest vertical squint, eye up
  • Microstrabismus
  • Non-comitant strabismus
  • Nonparalytic strabismus
  • Partial radial absence
  • Pseudo-abducens palsy
  • Pseudoexotropia
  • Pseudostrabismus
  • Strabismus fixus
  • Strabismus in neuromuscular disorder
  • V-pattern strabismus
  • X pattern strabismus
  • Y pattern strabismus

Clinical Classification

Clinical Information

  • Pseudostrabismus

    the false appearance of misalignment of the eyes.
  • Hypertropia

    vertical strabismus in which there is permanent upward deviation of the visual axis of one eye.

Index to Diseases and Injuries References

The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).

Convert H50.89 to ICD-9-CM

  • ICD-9-CM Code: 378.73 - Neuromuscle dis strabism
    Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.

Patient Education


Eye Movement Disorders

When you look at an object, you're using several muscles to move both eyes to focus on it. If you have a problem with the muscles, the eyes don't work properly.

There are many kinds of eye movement disorders. Two common ones are:

  • Strabismus - a disorder in which the two eyes don't line up in the same direction. This results in "crossed eyes" or "walleye."
  • Nystagmus - fast, uncontrollable movements of the eyes, sometimes called "dancing eyes"

Some eye movement disorders are present at birth. Others develop over time and may be associated with other problems, such as injuries. Treatments include glasses, patches, eye muscle exercises, and surgery. There is no cure for some kinds of eye movement disorders, such as most kinds of nystagmus.


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Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.

Footnotes

[1] Not chronic - A diagnosis code that does not fit the criteria for chronic condition (duration, ongoing medical treatment, and limitations) is considered not chronic. Some codes designated as not chronic are acute conditions. Other diagnosis codes that indicate a possible chronic condition, but for which the duration of the illness is not specified in the code description (i.e., we do not know the condition has lasted 12 months or longer) also are considered not chronic.