Diagnosis Code: 389.8

Short Description: Hearing loss NEC

Long Description: Other specified forms of hearing loss

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the sense organs (360–389)
  • Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (380-389)
    • 389 Hearing loss
      • 389.8 Hearing loss NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Acoustic analysis deficit
• Asymmetrical hearing loss
• Central hearing loss
• Combined perceptive hearing loss
• Complete deafness
• Dead ear
• Drug ototoxicity - deafness
• End organ deafness
• Hearing loss associated with syndrome
• Hearing loss remits during vertigo attacks
• High frequency deafness
• Low frequency deafness
• Neural hearing loss
• Occupational deafness
• On examination - High tone deafness
• Paradoxic hearing loss
• Renal tubular acidosis with progressive nerve deafness
• Sensorineural hearing loss of combined sites
• Sensory hearing loss
• Tone deafness
• Toxic deafness
• Unilateral sensory hearing loss
• Upper frequency deafness

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 389.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Deafness (acquired) (complete) (congenital) (hereditary) (middle ear) (partial) 389.9
  • high frequency 389.8
  • low frequency 389.8
  • specified type NEC 389.8

• High
  • frequency deafness (congenital) (regional) 389.8

• Loss
  • hearing - see also Deafness
    • specified type NEC 389.8

Crosswalk Information

The code 389.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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