H66

H66: Suppurative and unspecified otitis media

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

H66 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for suppurative and unspecified otitis media. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

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Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

code to identify:
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
tobacco dependence (F17.-)
tobacco use (Z72.0)

Includes

Conditions this code covers.

suppurative and unspecified otitis media with myringitis

Other codes that can never be billed with H66

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

H65.1Other acute nonsuppurative otitis media
H72Perforation of tympanic membrane
H73.0Acute myringitis
H73.1Chronic myringitis

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 H66

6 child codes. Green means billable.