Sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral, with restricted hearing on the contralateral side

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, FY2017 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

H90.A21 Sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral, right ear, with restricted hearing on the contralateral side
H90.A22 Sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral, left ear, with restricted hearing on the contralateral side

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

FY2017 Added to the code set Sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral, with restricted hearing on the contralateral side

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.

Loss > hearing > sensorineural NOS > unilateral > with > restricted hearing on the contralateral side

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
H90.A1	Conductive hearing loss, unilateral, with restricted hearing on the contralateral side	Not billable
H90.A3	Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unilateral with restricted hearing on the contralateral side	Not billable