H65.19

H65.19: Other acute nonsuppurative otitis media

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H65.19 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other acute nonsuppurative 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 mucoid otitis media
Acute and subacute nonsuppurative otitis media NOS
Acute and subacute sanguinous otitis media
Acute and subacute seromucinous otitis media

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H65.19

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 H65.19

8 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under H65.1

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