B05.3

B05.3: Measles complicated by otitis media

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

B05.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for measles complicated by otitis media. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check B05.3 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Postmeasles otitis media

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above B05.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on B05: Measles

subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (A81.1)

Other codes that can never be billed with B05.3

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

H67Otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Measles›with›otitis media
Otitis›media›postmeasles
Otitis›media›in›measles
Otitis›media›acute, subacute›necrotizing›in›measles

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under B05