ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H90-H94 › H codes › H90

H90

Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • H90.0 Conductive hearing loss, bilateral
  • H90.1 Conductive hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side (also a header)
  • H90.2 Conductive hearing loss, unspecified
  • H90.3 Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
  • H90.4 Sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side (also a header)
  • H90.5 Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss
  • H90.6 Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
  • H90.7 Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side (also a header)
  • H90.8 Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unspecified
  • H90.A Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss with restricted hearing on the contralateral side (also a header)

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 Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • deaf nonspeaking NEC (H91.3)
  • deafness NOS (H91.9-)
  • hearing loss NOS (H91.9-)
  • noise-induced hearing loss (H83.3-)
  • ototoxic hearing loss (H91.0-)
  • sudden (idiopathic) hearing loss (H91.2-)