H66.43 Suppurative otitis media, unspecified, bilateral

Instructional Notes:

H66.43
Description: Suppurative otitis media, unspecified, bilateral
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H66.4
Description: Suppurative otitis media, unspecified
Use Additional Code:
- code for any associated perforated tympanic membrane (H72.-)
Inclusion Term:
- Purulent otitis media NOS
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H66
Description: Suppurative and unspecified otitis media
Use Additional Code:
- code to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
Include:
- suppurative and unspecified otitis media with myringitis
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H65-H75
Description: Diseases of middle ear and mastoid (H65-H75)
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H60-H95
Description: Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
Exclude2:
- 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)
Notes:
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition