H90.3 Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
Instructional Notes:
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H90.3
Description: Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
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H90
Description: Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
Exclude1:
- deaf nonspeaking NEC (H91.3)
- deafness NOS (H91.9-)
- hearing loss NOS (H91.9-)
- noise-induced hearing loss (H83.3-)
- ototoxic hearing loss (H91.0-)
- sudden (idiopathic) hearing loss (H91.2-)
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H90-H94
Description: Other disorders of ear (H90-H94)
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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