Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Encounter for examination of ears and hearing without abnormal findings is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (Z01.10).

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for Z01.10 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.

encounter for examination for administrative purposes (Z02.-)
encounter for examination for suspected conditions, proven not to exist (Z03.-)
encounter for laboratory, radiologic and imaging examinations for sign(s) and symptom(s) - code to the sign(s) or symptom(s)

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

encounter for laboratory and radiologic examinations as a component of general medical examinations (Z00.0-)
screening examinations (Z11-Z13)
examinations related to pregnancy and reproduction (Z30-Z36, Z39.-)

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to Z01.10 in its code family, with their registry titles.

Z01.01 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision with abnormal findings
Z01.02 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision following failed vision screening
Z01.020 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision following failed vision screening without abnormal findings
Z01.021 — Encounter for examination of eyes and vision following failed vision screening with abnormal findings
Z01.1 — Encounter for examination of ears and hearing
Z01.11 — Encounter for examination of ears and hearing with abnormal findings
Z01.110 — Encounter for hearing examination following failed hearing screening
Z01.118 — Encounter for examination of ears and hearing with other abnormal findings
Z01.12 — Encounter for hearing conservation and treatment
Z01.2 — Encounter for dental examination and cleaning

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.