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ICD-10-CM chapter 8 · H60-H95

Diseases of the ear and mastoid process

About chapter 8

Chapter 8 (H60-H95) contains 24 categories and 653 billable codes for FY2027. No codes here changed in the FY2027 update. 0 codes are MCCs and 32 are CCs when reported as secondary diagnoses.

5 code blocks

Chapter notes

Note
  • Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition
Excludes2
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)