H66.00
H66.00 — Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H66.00 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
H66.00 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead H66.00
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- H66.001Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, right ear
- H66.002Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, left ear
- H66.003Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, bilateral
- H66.004Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, right ear
- H66.005Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, left ear
- H66.006Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, bilateral
- H66.007Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, unspecified ear
- H66.009Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, unspecified ear
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H66.0. If H66.00 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H66.00
- Is H66.00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H66.00 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H66.00 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95), in the block Diseases of middle ear and mastoid (H65-H75).