H91.9
H91.9: Unspecified hearing loss
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H91.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified 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.
- Deafness NOS
- High frequency deafness
- Low frequency deafness
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above H91.9
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with H91.9
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 H91.9
4 child codes. Green means billable.