ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H66.9 Otitis media, unspecified › H66.90
Otitis media, unspecified, unspecified ear
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 Otitis media, unspecified, unspecified ear
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
- Otitis > chronic
- Myringitis > with otitis media
- Suppuration, suppurative > ear
- Disorder > tympanic membrane > infection
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > ear
- Infection, infected, infective > tympanic membrane NEC
- Otitis
- Otitis > media > chronic
- Otitis > media > acute, subacute
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H66.91 | Otitis media, unspecified, right ear | Valid |
| H66.92 | Otitis media, unspecified, left ear | Valid |
| H66.93 | Otitis media, unspecified, bilateral | Valid |