H44.62 is the authoritative medical code for Retained old magnetic foreign body in iris or ciliary body. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for retained old magnetic foreign body in iris or ciliary body (ICD-10-CM H44.62), 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 H44.62 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes 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.
Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.
No. H44.62 (Retained old magnetic foreign body in iris or ciliary body) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes1 instructions, H44.62 must not be reported together with: current intraocular foreign body (S05.-).
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes2 instructions, H44.62 and the following are not considered part of each other and may both be reported when both conditions are present: retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.81-); retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit (H05.5-); retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic (H44.7-).
Use additional code(s) to specify: code to identify magnetic foreign body (Z18.11).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to H44.62 in its code family, with their registry titles.