ICD-10-CM › H60-H95 › H90-H94 › H91 Other and unspecified hearing loss › H91.2
Sudden idiopathic 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.
Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:
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 Sudden idiopathic 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.
Inherited from H91 Other and unspecified hearing loss
Excludes1 - never coded here
- abnormal auditory perception (H93.2-)
- hearing loss as classified in H90.-
- impacted cerumen (H61.2-)
- noise-induced hearing loss (H83.3-)
- psychogenic deafness (F44.6)
- transient ischemic deafness (H93.01-)
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
- Problem > hearing
- Imperception auditory
- Sudden > hearing loss
- Disorder > ear > deafness
- Defect, defective > hearing
- Fatigue > auditory deafness
- Impaired, impairment > hearing
- Diminished, diminution > hearing
- Deafness > sudden
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H91.0 | Ototoxic hearing loss | Not billable |
| H91.1 | Presbycusis | Not billable |
| H91.3 | Deaf nonspeaking, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| H91.8 | Other specified hearing loss | Not billable |
| H91.9 | Unspecified hearing loss | Not billable |