ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H90-H94 › H90 Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss › H90.8

H90.8

Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unspecified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unspecified

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 H90 Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss

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-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
H90.0 Conductive hearing loss, bilateral Valid
H90.1 Conductive hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side Not billable
H90.2 Conductive hearing loss, unspecified Valid
H90.3 Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral Valid
H90.4 Sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side Not billable
H90.5 Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss Valid
H90.6 Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral Valid
H90.7 Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral with unrestricted hearing on the contralateral side Not billable
H90.A Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss with restricted hearing on the contralateral side Not billable