H65.49
H65.49: Other chronic nonsuppurative otitis media
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H65.49 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other chronic 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.
- Chronic exudative otitis media
- Chronic nonsuppurative otitis media NOS
- Chronic otitis media with effusion (nonpurulent)
- Chronic seromucinous otitis media
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 H65.49
4 child codes. Green means billable.