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H72.821

Total perforations of tympanic membrane, right ear

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 10 never code together

H72code

Excludes1

acute suppurative otitis media with rupture of the tympanic membrane (H66.01-)H66.01-
traumatic rupture of ear drum (S09.2-)S09.2-

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

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 4

H72code

Includes

persistent post-traumatic perforation of ear drum
postinflammatory perforation of ear drum

Code first

any associated otitis media (H65.-, H66.1-, H66.2-, H66.3-, H66.4-, H66.9-, H67.-)H65.-H66.1-H66.2-H66.3-H66.4-H66.9-H67.-

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 Guidelines 1 names this code

ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, quoted in full. Published by CMS and NCHS; in the public domain.

I.C.8 Chapter 8: Diseases of the Ear and Mastoid Process (H60-H95) names this code p.49

Reserved for future guideline expansion

Index entries leading here 1

Perforation, perforated (nontraumatic) (of)
- tympanum, tympanic (membrane) (persistent post-traumatic) (postinflammatory) H72.9
  - total H72.82

Alongside this code 3 same parent — H72.82

H72.822 Total perforations of tympanic membrane, left ear H72.823 Total perforations of tympanic membrane, bilateral H72.829 Total perforations of tympanic membrane, unspecified ear

Medications 1

1 Tympanic Membrane Perforation drugs

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

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Risk adjustment

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

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This code

Billable: yes
Code set: FY2026
Parent: H72.82
Block: H65-H75
Siblings: 3

Present FY2024–FY2027.