ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H68.10 Unspecified obstruction of Eustachian tube › H68.103
H68.103
Unspecified obstruction of Eustachian tube, bilateral
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 Unspecified obstruction of Eustachian tube, bilateral
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.
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Yellow > jaundice
- Narrowing > eustachian tube
- Stricture > eustachian tube
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Disease, diseased > eustachian tube
- Stenosis, stenotic > eustachian tube
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Disorder > eustachian tube > obstruction
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > eustachian tube
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H68.101 | Unspecified obstruction of Eustachian tube, right ear | Valid |
| H68.102 | Unspecified obstruction of Eustachian tube, left ear | Valid |
| H68.109 | Unspecified obstruction of Eustachian tube, unspecified ear | Valid |