Secondary malignant neoplasm of bladder and other and unspecified urinary organs

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

C79.10 Secondary malignant neoplasm of unspecified urinary organs
C79.11 Secondary malignant neoplasm of bladder
C79.19 Secondary malignant neoplasm of other urinary organs

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Secondary malignant neoplasm of bladder and other and unspecified urinary organs

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from C79 Secondary malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified sites

Excludes1 - never coded here

secondary carcinoid tumors (C7B.-)
secondary neuroendocrine tumors (C7B.-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
C79.0	Secondary malignant neoplasm of kidney and renal pelvis	Not billable
C79.2	Secondary malignant neoplasm of skin	Valid
C79.3	Secondary malignant neoplasm of brain and cerebral meninges	Not billable
C79.4	Secondary malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified parts of nervous system	Not billable
C79.5	Secondary malignant neoplasm of bone and bone marrow	Not billable
C79.6	Secondary malignant neoplasm of ovary	Not billable
C79.7	Secondary malignant neoplasm of adrenal gland	Not billable
C79.8	Secondary malignant neoplasm of other specified sites	Not billable
C79.9	Secondary malignant neoplasm of unspecified site	Valid