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H65.11

H65.11: Acute and subacute allergic otitis media (mucoid) (sanguinous) (serous)

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H65.11 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute and subacute allergic otitis media (mucoid) (sanguinous) (serous). It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H65.11

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on H65.1: Other acute nonsuppurative otitis media

  • otitic barotrauma (T70.0)
  • otitis media (acute) NOS (H66.9)

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 H65.11

8 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under H65.1

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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