H91.2
H91.2: Sudden idiopathic hearing loss
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H91.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for sudden idiopathic hearing loss. 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.
- Sudden hearing loss NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H91.2
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with H91.2
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- H90Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
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 H91.2
4 child codes. Green means billable.