H95.3
Accidental puncture and laceration of ear and mastoid process during a procedure
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 8 never code together
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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 notes 1
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Notes
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition
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Alongside this code 6 same parent — H95
H95.0 Recurrent cholesteatoma of postmastoidectomy cavity category H95.1 Oth disorders of ear/mastd following mastoidectomy category H95.2 Intraop hemor/hemtom of ear/mastd complicating a procedure category H95.4 Postprocedural hemorrhage of ear/mastd following a procedure category H95.5 Postproc hematoma and seroma of ear/mastd fol a procedure category H95.8 Oth intraop and postproc comp and disord of ear/mastd, NEC category
Subordinate codes 2
Additional references
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