H95.3
H95.3: Accidental puncture and laceration of ear and mastoid process during a procedure
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
H95.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for accidental puncture and laceration of ear and mastoid process during a procedure. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with H95.3
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- H95.2Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of ear and mastoid process complicating a procedure
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 H95.3
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under H95
- H95.0Recurrent cholesteatoma of postmastoidectomy cavity
- H95.1Other disorders of ear and mastoid process following mastoidectomy
- H95.2Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of ear and mastoid process complicating 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