H67 is the authoritative medical code for Otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere (ICD-10-CM H67), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for H67 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
Underlying conditions that must be sequenced before this code.
Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.
No. H67 (Otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Per Excludes1 instructions, H67 must not be reported with: otitis media in:; influenza (J09.X9, J10.83, J11.83); measles (B05.3); scarlet fever (A38.0).
Yes. Code first: underlying disease, such as:; plasminogen deficiency (E88.02); viral disease NEC (B00-B34).
Use additional code(s) to specify: code for any associated perforated tympanic membrane (H72.-).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as H67, with their registry titles.
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