H83.3 — Noise effects on inner ear
H83.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for noise effects on inner ear. 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.
- Acoustic trauma of inner ear
- Noise-induced hearing loss of inner ear
Other codes that can never be billed with H83.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at H83.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading H83.3 alone.
Risk adjustment
H83.3 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.
How H83.3 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to H83.3.
- Deafness›noise-induced
Code to one of these instead H83.3
1 child code. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H83. If H83.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H83.3
- Is H83.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H83.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H83.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95), in the block Diseases of inner ear (H80-H83).