Right Otitis Media ICD-10-CM Codes | 2023
Explore the commonly used ICD-10 codes for right otitis media, including their clinical significance, billing aspects, and role in effective disease management.
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What ICD-10 Codes are Used for Right Otitis Media
Here are commonly used ICD-10 codes used for right otitis media:
- H65.01: Acute serous otitis media, right ear
- H65.04: Acute serous otitis media, recurrent, right ear
- H65.111: Acute and subacute allergic otitis media (mucoid) (sanguineous) (serous), right ear
- H65.114: Acute and subacute allergic otitis (mucoid) (sanguineous) (serous), recurrent, right ear
- H65.191: Other acute nonsuppurative otitis media, right ear
- H65.194: Other acute nonsuppurative otitis media, recurrent, right ear
- H65.21: Chronic serous otitis media, right ear
- H65.31: Chronic mucoid media, right ear
- H65.411: Chronic allergic otitis media, right ear
- H65.491: Other chronic nonsuppurative otitis media, right ear
There are more specific ICD codes related to right otitis media under the code H66: Suppurative and unspecified otitis media.
Which Right Otitis Media ICD codes are Billable:
Billable codes are ones that insurance companies use for reimbursement. All of the codes mentioned above are billable. However, only very specific ICD-10 codes under H66: Suppurative and unspecified otitis media.
Clinical Information
- Otitis media is an infection located in the air-filled space behind the eardrum that houses the bones that vibrate in the ear.
- Otitis media is commonly caused by a virus or bacterium in the middle ear resulting from another illness, usually a cold, flu, or allergy.
- The onset of signs and symptoms of an ear infection is usually quick. Some common symptoms in children of an ear infection are ear pain, trouble sleeping, crying (more than usual), loss of balance, headache, and trouble hearing or responding to sounds. Meanwhile, the symptoms adults experience are ear pain and drainage of fluid from the ear.
- Practitioners will check a patient’s ear via a conventional otoscopy procedure to diagnose otitis media.
- Treatment of otitis media usually involves managing the pain. Oftentimes, antibiotics are used to clear the infection if it doesn’t clear on its own.
Synonyms Include:
- Acute otitis media of the right ear
- Right-sided middle ear infection
- Right ear inflammation
- Right tympanic membrane disorder
- Otitis media affecting the right ear
Commonly asked questions
Healthcare practitioners can use the right otitis media if, upon inspection, the ear infection is found in the right ear in the specific area described above.
Yes, the enumerated right otitis media codes are billable. Meanwhile, only the specific codes under H66: Suppurative and unspecified otitis media are billable.
The standard treatment for right otitis media diagnosis code is antibiotics if it doesn’t go away independently.
