ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H65-H75 › H75 Other disorders of middle ear and... › H75.0
Mastoiditis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere
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:
- H75.00 Mastoiditis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere, unspecified ear
- H75.01 Mastoiditis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere, right ear
- H75.02 Mastoiditis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere, left ear
- H75.03 Mastoiditis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere, bilateral
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 Mastoiditis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere
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 H75 Other disorders of middle ear and mastoid in diseases classified elsewhere
Code first
- underlying disease
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.
- Endomastoiditis
- Infection, infected, infective > mastoid
- Mastoiditis > in > parasitic disease NEC
- Mastoiditis > in > infectious disease NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H75.8 | Other specified disorders of middle ear and mastoid in diseases classified elsewhere | Not billable |