Suppurative and unspecified 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.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 6 more specific codes instead:

H66.0 Acute suppurative otitis media (also a header)
H66.1 Chronic tubotympanic suppurative otitis media (also a header)
H66.2 Chronic atticoantral suppurative otitis media (also a header)
H66.3 Other chronic suppurative otitis media (also a header)
H66.4 Suppurative otitis media, unspecified (also a header)
H66.9 Otitis media, unspecified (also a header)

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 Suppurative and unspecified 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.

This code

Use additional code

code 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)
occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
tobacco dependence (F17.-)
tobacco use (Z72.0)

Includes

suppurative and unspecified otitis media with myringitis