ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H80-H83 › H81.8 Other disorders of vestibular function › H81.8X

H81.8X

Other disorders of vestibular function

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:

  • H81.8X1 Other disorders of vestibular function, right ear
  • H81.8X2 Other disorders of vestibular function, left ear
  • H81.8X3 Other disorders of vestibular function, bilateral
  • H81.8X9 Other disorders of vestibular function, 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 disorders of vestibular function

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 H81 Disorders of vestibular function

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • epidemic vertigo (A88.1)
  • vertigo NOS (R42)

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.