H61.2
H61.2 — Impacted cerumen
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H61.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for impacted cerumen. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Wax in ear
Other codes that can never be billed with H61.2
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at H61.2. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading H61.2 alone.
- H91Other and unspecified hearing loss
Risk adjustment
H61.2 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.
Code to one of these instead H61.2
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H61. If H61.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H61.2
- Is H61.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H61.2 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H61.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95), in the block Diseases of external ear (H60-H62).