H90
ICD-10Non-billable categoryConductive and sensorineural hearing loss
Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)
Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
H90 is a category heading, not a billable code. CMS does not accept it on a claim; report one of the more specific codes beneath it.
Excludes1
Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.
- 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-)
More specific codes under H90
- H90.0Conductive hearing loss, bilateral
- H90.1Conductive hear loss, uni w unrestricted hear cntra sidecategory
- H90.2Conductive hearing loss, unspecified
- H90.3Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
- H90.4Sensorineural hear loss, uni w unrestricted hear cntra sidecategory
- H90.5Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss
- H90.6Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
- H90.7Mixed cndct/snrl hear loss, uni w unrestr hear cntra sidecategory
- H90.8Mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, unspecified
- H90.ACndct/snrl hearing loss with restricted hear cntra sidecategory
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ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order” (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.