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2011 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 389.8
Other specified forms of hearing loss
- Short description: Hearing loss NEC.
- ICD-9-CM 389.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2011 version of ICD-9-CM 389.8.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 389.8: 2012 2013.
389.8 Alternative Terminology
- 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
Convert 389.8 to ICD-10-CM 

ICD-9-CM 389.8 converts approximately to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM H91.8X9 Other specified hearing loss, unspecified ear
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 389.8:
- 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
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