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H66.01

Acute suppurative otitis media with 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.

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

Submit one of these 8 more specific codes instead:

  • H66.011 Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum, right ear
  • H66.012 Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum, left ear
  • H66.013 Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum, bilateral
  • H66.014 Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, right ear
  • H66.015 Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, left ear
  • H66.016 Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, bilateral
  • H66.017 Acute suppurative otitis media with spontaneous rupture of ear drum, recurrent, unspecified ear
  • H66.019 Acute suppurative otitis media with 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Acute suppurative otitis media with 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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H66.00 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum Not billable