H91.3 — Deaf nonspeaking, not elsewhere classified
H91.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for deaf nonspeaking, not elsewhere classified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H91.3
These are not written on H91.3, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing H91.3 with anything listed here is a denial.
Other codes that can never be billed with H91.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at H91.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading H91.3 alone.
- H90Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
Risk adjustment
H91.3 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.
Medicare coverage
H91.3 is named in 9 Medicare coverage policies — 9 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A53052Billing and Coding: Home Health Speech-Language Pathology
- A56773Billing and Coding: Neurophysiology Evoked Potentials (NEPs)
- A56868Billing and Coding: Outpatient Speech Language Pathology
- A57065Billing and Coding: Outpatient Psychiatry and Psychology Services
How H91.3 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 H91.3.
- Deaf nonspeaking NEC
- Deafmutism NEC(acquired) (congenital)
- Deafness›nonspeaking
- Mutism›deaf NEC(acquired) (congenital)
Code history
H91.3 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H91. If H91.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H91.3
- Is H91.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H91.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H91.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95), in the block Other disorders of ear (H90-H94).
- What cannot be coded together with H91.3?
- H91.3 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above H91.3 (H91) and apply to it just the same.