2027 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code H90.5Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss
ICD-10-CM Codes›H60–H95›H90-H94›H90
- Billable — Valid for Submission
- Chronic Condition
H90.5 is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for unspecified sensorineural hearing loss. It is valid on HIPAA claims for fiscal year 2027 (October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027) and groups to MS-DRG 154 through 156. In AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software (CCSR), this diagnosis falls under Hearing loss.
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Approximate SynonymsGuidance
Alternate terms and clinical phrases that map to this code.
- 10p partial monosomy syndrome
- 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria type 4
- Achalasia of esophagus
- Acquired sensorineural hearing loss
- Adult onset sensorineural hearing loss
- Adult-onset progressive leukoencephalopathy, early-onset deafness
- Albinism with deafness syndrome
- Anal atresia
- Aphonia, deafness, retinal dystrophy, bifid halluces, intellectual disability syndrome
- Arts syndrome
- Asymmetrical hearing loss
- Asymmetrical sensorineural hearing loss
- Auditory synaptopathy
- Autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss
- Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, deafness and narcolepsy syndrome
- Autosomal dominant deafness with onychodystrophy syndrome
- Autosomal dominant ichthyosis
- Autosomal dominant myopia, midfacial retrusion, sensorineural hearing loss, rhizomelic dysplasia syndrome
- Autosomal recessive keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
- Benign neoplasm of sacrococcygeal region
- Bilateral optic atrophy of eyes
- Björnstad syndrome
- Black locks, oculocutaneous albinism, AND deafness of the sensorineural type
- Cataract, growth hormone deficiency, sensory neuropathy, sensorineural hearing loss, skeletal dysplasia syndrome
- Central hearing loss
- Cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, pes cavus, optic atrophy, sensorineural hearing loss syndrome
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, deafness, intellectual disability syndrome
- Childhood onset sensorineural hearing loss
- Chitty Hall Baraitser syndrome
- Cochlear nerve disorder
- Colobomatous microphthalmia
- Combined perceptive hearing loss
- COMMAD syndrome
- Complete deafness
- Congenital achalasia of esophagus
- Congenital atrophy of optic nerve
- Congenital calyceal diverticulum
- Congenital cataract with ataxia and deafness syndrome
- Congenital cataract with deafness and hypogonadism syndrome
- Congenital cataract, hearing loss, severe developmental delay syndrome
- Congenital cataract, progressive muscular hypotonia, hearing loss, developmental delay syndrome
- Congenital conductive hearing loss
- Congenital corneal dystrophy
- Congenital deafness
- Congenital dilatation of colon
- Congenital hearing disorder
- Congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy
- Congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy and perceptive deafness syndrome
- Congenital kyphoscoliosis
- Congenital kyphosis
- Congenital nephritis
- Congenital osteodystrophy
- Congenital prelingual deafness
- Congenital scoliosis deformity of spine
- Congenital sensorineural hearing loss
- Craniofacial deafness hand syndrome
- Cutaneous syndrome with ichthyosis
- Deafness and hypogonadism syndrome
- Deafness and oligodontia syndrome
- Deafness craniofacial syndrome
- Deafness with onychodystrophy syndrome
- Deafness, encephaloneuropathy, obesity, valvulopathy syndrome
- Deafness, genital anomaly, metacarpal and metatarsal synostosis syndrome
- Deafness, vitiligo, achalasia syndrome
- Deafness-dystonia-optic neuronopathy syndrome
- Deletion of part of chromosome 10
- Deletion of part of chromosome 11
- Dentinogenesis imperfecta
- Dentinogenesis imperfecta, short stature, hearing loss, intellectual disability syndrome
- Developmental malformation, deafness, dystonia syndrome
- DIAPH1-related sensorineural hearing loss-thrombocytopenia syndrome
- Distal renal tubular acidosis
- Distal renal tubular acidosis co-occurrent with sensorineural deafness
- Diverticulum of renal calyx
- Dominant sensorineural hearing loss
- DOORS syndrome
- Duane retraction syndrome with congenital deafness
- Duane's syndrome
- Duane's syndrome, type 3
- Ectodermal dysplasia and sensorineural deafness syndrome
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome kyphoscoliotic and deafness type
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome kyphoscoliotic type
- Epiphyseal dysplasia, hearing loss, dysmorphism syndrome
- Essential tremor
- Familial steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome with sensorineural deafness
- Gemignani syndrome
- Generalized dystonia
- Gingival fibromatosis
- Gingival fibromatosis with progressive deafness syndrome
- Globodontia
- Gonadal dysgenesis with auditory dysfunction, autosomal recessive inheritance
- Hereditary essential tremor
- Hereditary gingival fibromatosis
- Hereditary growth hormone deficiency
- Hereditary sensory neuropathy
- Heritable disorder of neutrophil function
- High frequency sensorineural hearing loss
- High frequency sensorineural hearing loss in right ear
- Hirschsprung disease with deafness and polydactyly syndrome
- Hypertelorism
- Hypertelorism, preauricular sinus, punctual pits, deafness syndrome
- Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, severe microcephaly, sensorineural hearing loss, dysmorphism syndrome
- Hypoparathyroidism, deafness, renal disease syndrome
- Hypotrichosis and deafness syndrome
- Kawashima Tsuji syndrome
- Keipert syndrome
- KID syndrome
- Leber's amaurosis
- Lipoma of lower back
- Low frequency sensorineural hearing loss
- Lowe Kohn Cohen syndrome
- Lowry Yong syndrome
- Macrodontia
- Male infertility of chromosomal origin
- Mandibular hypoplasia, deafness, progeroid syndrome
- Maternal perinatal sensorineural hearing loss
- Maternally inherited cardiomyopathy and hearing loss syndrome
- Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness
- Megaloblastic anemia due to inborn errors of metabolism
- Megaloblastic anemia, thiamine-responsive, with diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness
- MEGDEL syndrome
- Microcephaly, intellectual disability, sensorineural hearing loss, epilepsy, abnormal muscle tone syndrome
- Micromelia
- Mid frequency sensorineural hearing loss
- Mild sensorineural hearing loss
- Moderate sensorineural hearing loss
- Multiple malformation syndrome, moderate short stature, facial
- Narcolepsy
- Nathalie syndrome
- Neonatal sensorineural hearing loss
- Nephrosis, deafness, urinary tract, digital malformation syndrome
- Nephrotic syndrome, deafness, pretibial epidermolysis bullosa syndrome
- Neural hearing loss
- Neural hearing loss of left ear
- Neural hearing loss of right ear
- Neutropenia, monocytopenia, deafness syndrome
- Non-acquired combined pituitary hormone deficiency, sensorineural hearing loss, spine abnormalities syndrome
- Non-syndromic mitochondrial sensorineural deafness
- Ocular albinism
- Ocular albinism with late-onset sensorineural deafness
- Oculootodental syndrome
- Oligodontia
- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy and deafness
- Olivopontocerebellar degeneration
- Panhypopituitarism
- PCNA-related progressive neurodegenerative photosensitivity syndrome
- Peripheral neuropathy with sensorineural hearing impairment syndrome
- Phocomelia
- Phocomelia, ectrodactyly, deafness and sinus arrhythmia syndrome
- Pili torti
- Postlingual sensorineural hearing loss
- Postnatal acquired sensorineural hearing loss
- Postoperative profound sensorineural hearing loss
- Preauricular fistula
- Premature canities
- Profound acquired hearing loss
- Profound hearing loss
- Profound sensorineural hearing loss
- Progressive autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia, sensorineural hearing loss syndrome
- Progressive macrocephaly
- Progressive sensorineural hearing loss and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy syndrome
- Recessive sensorineural hearing loss
- Renal caliceal diverticuli and deafness syndrome
- Renal tubular acidosis with progressive nerve deafness
- Retinitis pigmentosa, hearing loss, premature aging, short stature, facial dysmorphism syndrome
- Retinitis pigmentosa, intellectual disability, deafness, hypogenitalism syndrome
- Retinitis pigmentosa-deafness syndrome
- Retinitis pigmentosa-deafness syndrome type 3
- Seizure, sensorineural deafness, ataxia, intellectual disability, electrolyte imbalance syndrome
- Sellars Beighton syndrome
- Sensorineural deafness and male infertility
- Sensorineural deafness due to late congenital syphilis
- Sensorineural deafness with dilated cardiomyopathy syndrome
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Sensorineural hearing loss of combined sites
- Sensorineural hearing loss of left ear
- Sensorineural hearing loss of right ear
- Sensorineural hearing loss, early graying, essential tremor syndrome
- Sensory hearing loss
- Senter syndrome
- Severe hearing loss
- Severe motor and intellectual disabilities, sensorineural deafness, dystonia syndrome
- Severe sensorineural hearing loss
- Severe X-linked intellectual disability Gustavson type
- Short stature, skeletal dysplasia, retinal degeneration, intellectual disability, sensorineural hearing loss syndrome
- Sinoatrial node dysfunction and deafness
- SLC12A2-related developmental delay, intellectual disability, sensorineural deafness syndrome
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia MacDermot type
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, sensorineural hearing loss, intellectual disability, Leber congenital amaurosis syndrome
- Steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome
- Sudden hearing loss
- Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- Syndromic sensorineural deafness due to combined oxidative phosphorylation defect
- Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia
- Thong Douglas Ferrante syndrome
- Tungland Bellman syndrome
- Wolfram syndrome
- Wolfram syndrome type 1
- Wolfram syndrome type 2
- Woodhouse Sakati syndrome
- X-linked sensorineural hearing loss
Instructional NotesGuidance
Instructions from the official ICD-10-CM Tabular List that apply to H90.5: its own notes plus those printed at H90 and Chapter 8. A note printed at a category, block or chapter applies to every code under it.
Applicable To
Conditions this code is used for: synonyms of the title or, for "other specified" codes, the conditions assigned to it. The list is not exhaustive.
- Central hearing loss NOS
- Congenital deafness NOS
- Neural hearing loss NOS
- Perceptive hearing loss NOS
- Sensorineural deafness NOS
- Sensory hearing loss NOS
Excludes1
Not coded here: the excluded code is never reported together with this one, unless the two conditions are unrelated.
Excludes2
Not included here: the excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient may have both, so both codes may be reported.
- 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)
Notes
General instructions on how these codes are used.
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition
Source: CMS ICD-10-CM Tabular List. How to read instructional notes.
Referenced in Other NotesGuidance
Instructional notes printed at other codes that name H90.5, its category, or a range that includes it.
Excludes1 2
These codes carry an Excludes1 note naming H90.5: they are not reported together with it, unless the two conditions are unrelated.
Index to Diseases and InjuriesGuidance
Alphabetical index entries that point to this code.
hearing See Also: Deafness;
central NOS H90.5
neural NOS H90.5
perceptive NOS H90.5
sensorineural NOS H90.5
sensory NOS H90.5
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Convert H90.5 to ICD-9-CMHistory
The closest ICD-9-CM equivalents under the General Equivalence Mappings.
Code HistoryHistory
Questions About H90.5Overview
What is the ICD-10 code for unspecified sensorineural hearing loss?
The ICD-10-CM code for unspecified sensorineural hearing loss is H90.5 (sometimes written as H905). It is billable on HIPAA-covered claims from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027.
Is H90.5 (Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss) a billable code?
Yes. This is a billable ICD-10-CM code, specific enough to report unspecified sensorineural hearing loss on HIPAA-covered claims from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027.
What MS-DRG does H90.5 group to?
When unspecified sensorineural hearing loss is the principal diagnosis on an inpatient stay, it groups to MS-DRG 156, 155, 154, with relative weights from 0.6656 to 1.5916 depending on complications. Higher weights mean higher Medicare reimbursement.
Can H90.5 be reported with a code from H93.2?
Not as a rule. The Excludes1 note on H90.5 lists "abnormal auditory perception (H93.2-)". An Excludes1 note means the excluded code is never reported together with this one; the only exception is when the two conditions are unrelated to each other (Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).
What is the ICD-9 equivalent of H90.5?
Under the General Equivalence Mappings, unspecified sensorineural hearing loss converts to ICD-9-CM 389.10 (sensorneur hear loss NOS), 389.14 (central hearing loss), and 389.16 (sensoneur hear loss asym). The mapping is approximate, so confirm the match fits the documentation.