H02.889 — Meibomian gland dysfunction of unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid
H02.889 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for meibomian gland dysfunction of unspecified eye, unspecified eyelid. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H02.889 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
H02.889 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A57637Billing and Coding: Visual Field Examination
How H02.889 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to H02.889.
- Dysfunction›meibomian gland, of eyelid
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H02.88. If H02.889 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H02.881Meibomian gland dysfunction right upper eyelid
- H02.882Meibomian gland dysfunction right lower eyelid
- H02.883Meibomian gland dysfunction of right eye, unspecified eyelid
- H02.884Meibomian gland dysfunction left upper eyelid
- H02.885Meibomian gland dysfunction left lower eyelid
- H02.886Meibomian gland dysfunction of left eye, unspecified eyelid
- H02.88AMeibomian gland dysfunction right eye, upper and lower eyelids
- H02.88BMeibomian gland dysfunction left eye, upper and lower eyelids
Questions about H02.889
- Is H02.889 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H02.889 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H02.889 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Disorders of eyelid, lacrimal system and orbit (H00-H05).