H95.2
H95.2 — Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of ear and mastoid process complicating a procedure
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H95.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of ear and mastoid process complicating a procedure. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of ear and mastoid process due to accidental puncture or laceration during a procedure (H95.3-)
Risk adjustment
H95.2 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.
Code to one of these instead H95.2
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H95. If H95.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- H95.0Recurrent cholesteatoma of postmastoidectomy cavity
- H95.1Other disorders of ear and mastoid process following mastoidectomy
- H95.3Accidental puncture and laceration of ear and mastoid process during a procedure
- H95.4Postprocedural hemorrhage of ear and mastoid process following a procedure
- H95.5Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of ear and mastoid process following a procedure
- H95.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of the ear and mastoid process, not elsewhere classified
Questions about H95.2
- Is H95.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. H95.2 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does H95.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95), in the block Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of ear and mastoid process, not elsewhere classified (H95).
- What cannot be coded together with H95.2?
- H95.2 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.