ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H70.2 Petrositis › H70.21

H70.21

Acute petrositis

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 4 more specific codes instead:

  • H70.211 Acute petrositis, right ear
  • H70.212 Acute petrositis, left ear
  • H70.213 Acute petrositis, bilateral
  • H70.219 Acute petrositis, 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 petrositis

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.

Showing 40 of 49 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H70.20 Unspecified petrositis Not billable
H70.22 Chronic petrositis Not billable