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389.8 - Other Specified Forms Of Hearing Loss


The ICD 9 Code for Other specified forms of hearing loss is listed as 389.8.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
ICD 9 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: 389.8
Long Description: Other specified forms of hearing loss
Short Description: Hearing loss NEC
Chapter: Diseases Of The Nervous System And Sense Organs
Block: Diseases Of The Ear And Mastoid Process (380-389)
Related Descriptions: 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 (situation)
Upper frequency deafness
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: H91.8X9 - Other specified hearing loss, unspecified ear (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 389.8:
389.7 - Deaf, nonspeaking, not elsewhere classifiable
389.9 - Unspecified hearing loss