Specific code 2011 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 379.99
Other ill-defined disorders of eye
  • Short description: Ill-defined eye dis NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 379.99 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 379.99 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2011 version of ICD-9-CM 379.99.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 379.99: 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 379.99 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM H57.8 Other specified disorders of eye and adnexa
Approximate Synonyms
  • Abnormal intraocular pressure
  • Absent eyeball
  • Angle closed
  • Ankylosing spondylarthritis and eye lesions
  • Anterior chamber - abnormal contents
  • Anterior chamber deposits
  • Bacterial infection of eye
  • Blebitis
  • Blinking
  • Blood clot in eye
  • Blood in eye
  • Brushfield spots
  • Burning sensation in eye
  • Circles under eyes
  • Coma wavefront aberration
  • Conjunctival follicle
  • Contact lens intolerance
  • Contact lens related disorder
  • Corneal fluorescein staining present
  • Cysticercosis of eye
  • Dazzling
  • Decreased blinking
  • Delayed pupil near reaction
  • Disorder of oculomotor system
  • Dysfunction of inferior oblique muscle
  • Eccentric viewing
  • Epiretinal snowbanking
  • Episcleral injection
  • Evenly shallow anterior chamber of eye
  • Excessive tear production
  • Extrafoveal ocular fixation
  • Eye closure myotonia
  • Eye disorder, ill defined
  • Eye disorder, inflammatory
  • Eye infection
  • Eye not working properly
  • Eye symptom
  • Eyes sensitive to light
  • Feeling of heat in eye
  • Feeling of sand or foreign body in eye
  • Francois syndrome
  • Glare disability
  • Glaucoma due to ocular tumor or cyst
  • Has an itchy eye
  • Has watering eyes
  • High tear meniscus
  • Ill-defined disorder of eye
  • Inflammatory disorder of the eye
  • Iris bleeding
  • Iris tuck
  • Irregular tear film
  • Itching of eye
  • Keratic precipitates
  • Keyhole pupil
  • Lazy eye
  • Lens material in anterior chamber
  • Lens tremulous
  • Limited downward eye movement
  • Limited eye movement
  • Limited leftward eye movement
  • Limited rightward eye movement
  • Limited upward eye movement
  • Local abnormality of angle
  • Locally shallow anterior chamber of eye
  • Low tear meniscus
  • Macular exudate
  • Medium depth anterior chamber of eye
  • Myotonic warm-up phenomenon - lid lag
  • Neonatal ophthalmologic disorder
  • Neovascularization of angle
  • Nuclear lens fragment in anterior chamber
  • Ocular head posture abnormal
  • Ocular ischemic syndrome
  • Ocular over-accommodation
  • Ocular posture chin down
  • Ocular posture chin up
  • Ocular posture face turn
  • Ocular posture head nod
  • Ocular posture head thrust
  • Ocular posture head tilt
  • Ocular under-accommodation
  • On examination - fundus not adequately seen
  • On examination - pinpoint pupils
  • Ophthalmological symptom change
  • Optic cup retained
  • Optic disc - myopic changes
  • Optic disc myopic crescent
  • Optic disc myopic traction fold
  • Orbital margin discontinuity
  • Poor pupil dilation to mydriatic eye drop
  • Postbasic stare
  • Posterior capsular rupture
  • Posterior pressure in eye
  • Pseudo-hypopyon
  • Pupillary capture of intraocular lens
  • Red reflex
  • Red tears
  • Rizzutti sign
  • Rolling of eyes
  • Scleral injection
  • Seeing spots in front of eyes
  • Sees flashes
  • Sees flickering lights
  • Shallow anterior chamber of eye
  • Slow to focus
  • Sluggish pupil movement
  • Sore eye
  • Subfoveal hemorrhage
  • Sunsetting eyes
  • Teardrop pupil
  • Tilted intraocular lens
  • Trabeculitis
  • True excessive orbital separation
  • Visual symptoms
  • Vitreous fibrosis
  • Watery eye
  • Wound leak of eye
  • Zonular laxity
379.99 Excludes
  • blurred vision NOS (368.8)
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 379.99:
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • eye 379.90
      • globe - see Disorder, globe
      • ill-defined NEC 379.99
      • limited duction NEC 378.63
      • specified NEC 379.8
  • Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
    • eye 379.99
  • Itch (see also Pruritus) 698.9
    • eye 379.99
  • Sore
    • eye 379.99
  • Symptoms, specified (general) NEC 780.99
    • eye NEC 379.99
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