Chapter 8: Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
H60-H95
Chapter 8 of the ICD-10-CM tabular list covers diseases of the ear and mastoid process, codes H60-H95. It holds 871 codes across 5 blocks, of which 653 are billable and 218 are header codes that cannot go on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- 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)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- 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)
Notes
Additional guidance from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition