ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H66.0 Acute suppurative otitis media › H66.00
Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum
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:
- H66.001 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, right ear
- H66.002 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, left ear
- H66.003 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, bilateral
- H66.004 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, right ear
- H66.005 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, left ear
- H66.006 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, bilateral
- H66.007 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, unspecified ear
- H66.009 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, 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 suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum
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 H66 Suppurative and unspecified otitis media
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
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
- Abscess > ear
- Gradenigo's syndrome
- Abscess > ear > acute
- Otitis > media > purulent
- Otitis > media > exudative
- Myringitis > with otitis media
- Suppuration, suppurative > ear
- Otitis > with effusion > purulent
- Syndrome > temporal pyramidal apex
- Disorder > tympanic membrane > infection
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > ear
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > purulent
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > exudative
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > necrotizing
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute > suppurative
- Infection, infected, infective > tympanic membrane NEC
- Otitis > media > suppurative > acute
- Otitis > media > suppurative > acute > recurrent
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H66.01 | Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum | Not billable |