ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H65 Nonsuppurative otitis media › H65.0
Acute serous otitis media
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 8 more specific codes instead:
- H65.00 Acute serous otitis media, unspecified ear
- H65.01 Acute serous otitis media, right ear
- H65.02 Acute serous otitis media, left ear
- H65.03 Acute serous otitis media, bilateral
- H65.04 Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, right ear
- H65.05 Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, left ear
- H65.06 Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, bilateral
- H65.07 Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, unspecified ear
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Acute serous 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 H65 Nonsuppurative otitis media
Use additional code
- code for any associated perforated tympanic membrane (H72.-)
- code, if applicable, to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- infectious agent (B95-B97)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
Includes
- nonsuppurative otitis media with myringitis
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.
- Tympanitis
- Otitis > with effusion
- Otitis > media > mucoid
- Otitis > media > serous
- Otitis > media > allergic
- Otitis > media > catarrhal
- Otitis > media > secretory
- Otitis > media > seromucinous
- Otitis > media > transudative
- Myringitis > with otitis media
- Otitis > media > with effusion
- Suppuration, suppurative > ear
- Catarrh, catarrhal > tubotympanal
- Disorder > tympanic membrane > infection
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > mucoid
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > serous
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > ear
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > allergic
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > secretory
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > sanguinous
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > seromucinous
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > nonsuppurative NEC
- Infection, infected, infective > tympanic membrane NEC
- Otitis > media > nonsuppurative > acute or subacute NEC > secretory
- Otitis > media > nonsuppurative > acute or subacute NEC > serous
- Otitis > media > nonsuppurative > acute or subacute NEC > serous > recurrent
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H65.1 | Other acute nonsuppurative otitis media | Not billable |
| H65.2 | Chronic serous otitis media | Not billable |
| H65.3 | Chronic mucoid otitis media | Not billable |
| H65.4 | Other chronic nonsuppurative otitis media | Not billable |
| H65.9 | Unspecified nonsuppurative otitis media | Not billable |