A 2-year-old patient is here for initial examination and is found to have a right acute serous otitis media and impacted cerumen of the left ear. What are the correct ICD-10-CM codes for this patient in the correct sequence?

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H65.01, H61.22 is the correct sequence for this patient. H65.01 is the correct code for right acute serous otitis media. H61.22 is the correct code for impacted cerumen in the left ear.
Code H65.02 is incorrect because this code is for left acute serous otitis media. Code H65.03 is incorrect as well because this code is for bilateral acute serous otitis media. Code H61.21 is incorrect because this code is for cerumen impaction in the right ear.

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