H04.32 is the authoritative medical code for Acute dacryocystitis. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for acute dacryocystitis (ICD-10-CM H04.32), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for H04.32 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
No. H04.32 (Acute dacryocystitis) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Per Excludes1 instructions, H04.32 must not be reported with: neonatal dacryocystitis (P39.1); congenital malformations of lacrimal system (Q10.4-Q10.6).
Per Excludes2 instructions, H04.32 and the following may both be reported when both are present: open wound of eyelid (S01.1-); superficial injury of eyelid (S00.1-, S00.2-).
Acute dacryocystitis includes: Acute dacryopericystitis.
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as H04.32, with their registry titles.
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