H90.5

Applicable To

• Central hearing loss NOS

• Congenital deafness NOS

• Neural hearing loss NOS

• Perceptive hearing loss NOS

• Sensorineural deafness NOS

• Sensory hearing loss NOS

Approximate Synonyms

• Autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss

• Congenital deafness

• Deafness, congenital

• Hearing loss sensory, unilateral

• Hearing loss, sensorineural

• Hearing loss, sensorineural, autoimmune

• Hearing loss, sensorineural, high frequency

• High frequency deafness

• Keratitis ichthyosis and deafness syndrome

• Kid syndrome

• Kid syndrome eye condition)

• Left sensory hearing loss

• Neural hearing loss

• Right sensory hearing loss

• Sensorineural hearing loss

• Unilateral sensory hearing loss

Clinical Information

• Complete loss of the ability to hear from both ears since birth, regardless of causation.

• Due to lesions of the cochlea and the auditory division of the eighth cranial nerve; problem of cellular dysfunction rather than airborne conduction.

• Hearing loss caused by a problem along the pathway from the inner ear to the auditory region of the brain or in the brain itself.

• Hearing loss caused by a problem in the inner ear or auditory nerve. A sensorineural loss often affects a person’s ability to hear some frequencies more than others. This means that sounds may be appear distorted, even with the use of a hearing aid. Sensorineural losses can range from mild to profound.

• Hearing loss due to disease of the auditory pathways in the central nervous system) which originate in the cochlear nuclei of the pons and then ascend bilaterally to the midbrain, the thalamus, and then the auditory cortex in the temporal lobe. Bilateral lesions of the auditory pathways are usually required to cause central hearing loss. Cortical deafness refers to loss of hearing due to bilateral auditory cortex lesions. Unilateral brain stem lesions involving the cochlear nuclei may result in unilateral hearing loss.

• Hearing loss resulting from damage to the cochlea and the sensorineural elements which lie internally beyond the oval and round windows. These elements include the auditory nerve and its connections in the brainstem.

Details

• H90.5 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

• The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM H90.5 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of H90.5 – other international versions of ICD-10 H90.5 may differ.