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FY2027

H05.5 — Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit

Not billable

Is H05.5 billable?

No — H05.5 is a non-billable header code. H05.5 groups more specific codes and cannot be submitted on a claim. A valid ICD-10-CM code must be reported at the highest level of specificity available in its branch. Select one of the 4 billable codes beneath H05.5.

H05.5 at a glance

CodeH05.5
DescriptionRetained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit
BillableNo — header code
Code setICD-10-CM FY2027
Valid for encountersOctober 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027

How is H05.5 listed in the Alphabetic Index?

These are the routes through the Alphabetic Index that lead to H05.5. They show the wording a clinician may have documented, which often differs from the Tabular description.

  • Foreign body › orbit › old, retained

Excludes1 — never code together

The conditions below can never be reported together with H05.5 on the same claim. An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient, so reporting both is a coding error.

  • current penetrating wound of orbit (S05.4-)

Use additional code

Report an additional code alongside H05.5 to fully describe the condition. H05.5 is sequenced first.

  • code to identify the type of retained foreign body (Z18.-)

Excludes2 — not included here

The conditions below are not part of H05.5, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, H05.5 and the excluded code may both be reported.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wording in documentation that is classified to H05.5.

  • Retrobulbar foreign body

Excludes1 — never code together — inherited from H05

The conditions below can never be reported together with H05.5 on the same claim. An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient, so reporting both is a coding error.

  • congenital malformation of orbit (Q10.7)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from Chapter 7

The conditions below are not part of H05.5, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, H05.5 and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from H00-H05

The conditions below are not part of H05.5, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, H05.5 and the excluded code may both be reported.

What codes fall under H05.5? (4)

How long has H05.5 existed?

H05.5 has been in ICD-10-CM since at least FY2016, the earliest fiscal year on record here.

Derived from the official order files for FY2016–FY2026. FY2017 and FY2020 publish no order file, so those years are not covered.

Which codes are confused with H05.5?

ICD-10-CM declares these codes mutually exclusive with H05.5 — exactly one of each pair can be correct for a given encounter.

What other codes are in the H05 family? (7)