ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H72.82 Total perforations of tympanic membrane › H72.821
Total perforations of tympanic membrane, right 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 Total perforations of tympanic membrane, right 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 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.
- Disease, diseased > tympanum
- Rupture, ruptured > ear drum
- Perforation, perforated > ear drum
- Perforation, perforated > attic, ear
- Rupture, ruptured > membrana tympani
- Perforation, perforated > pars flaccida
- Disorder > tympanic membrane > perforation
- Perforation, perforated > membrana tympani
- Perforation, perforated > tympanum, tympanic > attic > total
- Perforation, perforated > tympanum, tympanic > pars flaccida
- Perforation, perforated > tympanum, tympanic > central > total
- Perforation, perforated > tympanum, tympanic > total
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H72.822 | Total perforations of tympanic membrane, left ear | Valid |
| H72.823 | Total perforations of tympanic membrane, bilateral | Valid |
| H72.829 | Total perforations of tympanic membrane, unspecified ear | Valid |