H95.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of the ear and mastoid process, not elsewhere classified

H95.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of the ear and mastoid process, not elsewhere classified. It belongs to category H95 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of ear and mastoid process, not elsewhere classified), block H95 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of ear and mastoid process, not elsewhere classified) and chapter 8 (diseases of the ear and mastoid process). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within H95, choose H95.8 (Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of the ear and mastoid process, not elsewhere classified) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: recurrent cholesteatoma of postmastoidectomy cavity (H95.0), other disorders of ear and mastoid process following mastoidectomy (H95.1), intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of ear and mastoid process complicating a procedure (H95.2), accidental puncture and laceration of ear and mastoid process during a procedure (H95.3), postprocedural hemorrhage of ear and mastoid process following a procedure (H95.4) and postprocedural hematoma and seroma of ear and mastoid process following a procedure (H95.5).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: H95.81 (canal), H95.88 (classified) and H95.89 (classified).

The conditions in its Excludes2 note aren't part of H95.8, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: postprocedural complications and disorders following mastoidectomy (H95.0-, H95.1-).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.