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B05.3
Measles complicated by otitis media
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Measles complicated by otitis media
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from B05 Measles
Excludes1 - never coded here
- subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (A81.1)
Includes
- morbilli
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Rubeola
- Morbilli
- Tympanitis
- Myringitis > with otitis media
- Suppuration, suppurative > ear
- Disorder > tympanic membrane > infection
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > ear
- Infection, infected, infective > tympanic membrane NEC
- Otitis > media > postmeasles
- Measles > with > otitis media
- Otitis > media > in > measles
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > necrotizing > in > measles
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B05.0 | Measles complicated by encephalitis | Valid |
| B05.1 | Measles complicated by meningitis | Valid |
| B05.2 | Measles complicated by pneumonia | Valid |
| B05.4 | Measles with intestinal complications | Valid |
| B05.8 | Measles with other complications | Not billable |
| B05.9 | Measles without complication | Valid |