H90.8 — Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unspecified
H90.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H90.8 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.
Medicare coverage
H90.8 is named in 14 Medicare coverage policies — 14 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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- A57065Billing and Coding: Outpatient Psychiatry and Psychology Services
How H90.8 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 H90.8.
- Deafness›mixed conductive and sensorineural
- Loss›hearing›mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
- Deafness›conductive›and sensorineural›mixed
- Deafness›sensorineural›and conductive›mixed
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H90. If H90.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H90.0Conductive hearing loss, bilateral
- H90.1Conductive hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side
- H90.2Conductive hearing loss, unspecified
- H90.3Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
- H90.4Sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side
- H90.5Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss
- H90.6Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
- H90.7Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side
- H90.AConductive and sensorineural hearing loss with restricted hearing on the contralateral side
Questions about H90.8
- Is H90.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H90.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H90.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95), in the block Other disorders of ear (H90-H94).