H93.3
Disorders of acoustic nerve
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
H93.3 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for disorders of acoustic nerve. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific code under it is H93.3X Disorders of acoustic nerve. Its coding notes include 2 Excludes1 entries and 8 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 8 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
- 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)
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
This code
- Disorder of 8th cranial nerve
Notes
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
Inherited from Chapter 8 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition
Alphabetic Index terms
Terms the official Alphabetic Index lists for this code. 17 entries
- Atrophy, atrophic (of), nerve, acoustic or auditory
- Atrophy, atrophic (of), nerve, cranial, eighth (auditory)
- Compression, cranial nerve, eighth
- Disorder (of), nerve, acoustic
- Disorder (of), nerve, auditory
- Disorder (of), nerve, cranial, eighth
- Disturbance (s), auditory nerve, except deafness
- Lesion (s) (nontraumatic), auditory nerve
- Mononeuritis, vestibular
- Neuralgia, neuralgic (acute), acoustic (nerve)
- Neuralgia, neuralgic (acute), auditory (nerve)
- Neuritis (rheumatoid), acoustic (nerve)
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- Neuritis (rheumatoid), auditory (nerve)
- Neuritis (rheumatoid), cranial nerve, eighth or acoustic or auditory
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete), acoustic nerve (except Deafness)
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete), nerve, auditory (except Deafness)
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete), vestibular nerve (except Vertigo)