S09.91
S09.91: Unspecified injury of ear
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMunspecified
S09.91 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified injury of ear. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S09
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Injury of ear NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with S09.91
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- S09.3Other specified and unspecified injury of middle and inner ear
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Injury›auditory canal(external) (meatus)
- Injury›auricle, auris, ear
- Injury›ear(auricle) (external) (canal)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S09.91
3 child codes. Green means billable.