Reserved for future guideline expansion
H65
BookmarkNonsuppurative otitis media
Not billable — category only FY2027 2026-10-01 → 2027-09-30
How to use this page
Everything the published sources say about one code, on one page.
- Read the Excludes1 block first — it is the one that stops you coding this at all alongside another code.
- Excludes2, Code first, Use additional and Includes follow. A note inherited from a parent category is labelled with the category it came from, so you can see why it applies.
- Official Guidelines sit below. "Guidelines naming this code" cite the code or a range containing it; "Chapter guidance" is the general guidance for its chapter and is the weaker signal.
- Guideline text is quoted verbatim with its section number and page, so you can check it against the published document.
- Risk-model chips show which published CMS models map this code.
What this page does not do
- Guidance is quoted, never paraphrased — a paraphrase of a coding rule is a different rule.
- Medication candidates, where shown, are matched by condition *name* and are offered as candidates for you to judge. They are not "the drugs for this code".
Exclusions8never code together
H60-H95chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes11
H65code
Includes
- nonsuppurative otitis media with myringitis
Use additional code
- code for any associated perforated tympanic membrane (H72.-)H72.-H72.-H72.-
- code, if applicable, to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)Z77.22Z77.22Z77.22
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)P96.81P96.81P96.81
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)Z87.891Z87.891Z87.891
- infectious agent (B95-B97)B95-B97B95-B97B95-B97
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)Z57.31Z57.31Z57.31
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)F17.-F17.-F17.-
- tobacco use (Z72.0)Z72.0Z72.0Z72.0
H60-H95chapter
Notes
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition
Official Guidelines1names this code
ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, quoted in full. Published by CMS and NCHS; in the public domain.
Index entries leading herefiled at null
No alphabetic index entry points at this code.
Subordinate codes6
Medications1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
AHA Coding Clinic® Licence required
Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.