H74.1
Adhesive middle ear disease
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 10 never 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
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 2
Index entries leading here 2
Alongside this code 6 same parent — H74
H74.0 Tympanosclerosis category H74.2 Discontinuity and dislocation of ear ossicles category H74.3 Other acquired abnormalities of ear ossicles category H74.4 Polyp of middle ear category H74.8 Other specified disorders of middle ear and mastoid category H74.9 Unspecified disorder of middle ear and mastoid category
Subordinate codes 4
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