H65.0
H65.0: Acute serous otitis media
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H65.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute serous otitis media. 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.
- Acute and subacute secretory otitis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead H65.0
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- H65.00Acute serous otitis media, unspecified ear
- H65.01Acute serous otitis media, right ear
- H65.02Acute serous otitis media, left ear
- H65.03Acute serous otitis media, bilateral
- H65.04Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, right ear
- H65.05Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, left ear
- H65.06Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, bilateral
- H65.07Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, unspecified ear