ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H68.1 Obstruction of Eustachian tube › H68.13
H68.13
Extrinsic cartilagenous obstruction of Eustachian tube
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 4 more specific codes instead:
- H68.131 Extrinsic cartilagenous obstruction of Eustachian tube, right ear
- H68.132 Extrinsic cartilagenous obstruction of Eustachian tube, left ear
- H68.133 Extrinsic cartilagenous obstruction of Eustachian tube, bilateral
- H68.139 Extrinsic cartilagenous obstruction of Eustachian tube, 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 Extrinsic cartilagenous obstruction of Eustachian tube
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
- Compression > eustachian tube
- 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 > cartilagenous
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H68.10 | Unspecified obstruction of Eustachian tube | Not billable |
| H68.11 | Osseous obstruction of Eustachian tube | Not billable |
| H68.12 | Intrinsic cartilagenous obstruction of Eustachian tube | Not billable |