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H72.2X

Other marginal perforations of tympanic membrane

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:

  • H72.2X1 Other marginal perforations of tympanic membrane, right ear
  • H72.2X2 Other marginal perforations of tympanic membrane, left ear
  • H72.2X3 Other marginal perforations of tympanic membrane, bilateral
  • H72.2X9 Other marginal perforations of tympanic membrane, 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 Other marginal perforations of tympanic membrane

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 H72 Perforation of tympanic membrane

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • acute suppurative otitis media with rupture of the tympanic membrane (H66.01-)
  • traumatic rupture of ear drum (S09.2-)

Code first

  • any associated otitis media (H65.-, H66.1-, H66.2-, H66.3-, H66.4-, H66.9-, H67.-)

Includes

  • persistent post-traumatic perforation of ear drum
  • postinflammatory perforation of ear drum

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.