H66.9
H66.9: Otitis media, unspecified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H66.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for otitis media, unspecified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Use additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- code for any associated perforated tympanic membrane (H72.-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Otitis media NOS
- Acute otitis media NOS
- Chronic otitis media NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with H66.9
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- H65.1Other acute nonsuppurative 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 H66.9
4 child codes. Green means billable.