Obstructive and reflux uropathy

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 10 more specific codes instead:

N13.0 Hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction
N13.1 Hydronephrosis with ureteral stricture, not elsewhere classified
N13.2 Hydronephrosis with renal and ureteral calculous obstruction
N13.3 Other and unspecified hydronephrosis (also a header)
N13.4 Hydroureter
N13.5 Crossing vessel and stricture of ureter without hydronephrosis
N13.6 Pyonephrosis
N13.7 Vesicoureteral-reflux (also a header)
N13.8 Other obstructive and reflux uropathy
N13.9 Obstructive and reflux uropathy, unspecified

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 Obstructive and reflux uropathy

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

calculus of kidney and ureter without hydronephrosis (N20.-)
congenital obstructive defects of renal pelvis and ureter (Q62.0-Q62.3)
hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction (Q62.11)
obstructive pyelonephritis (N11.1)

Inherited from the N10-N16 section Renal tubulo-interstitial diseases (N10-N16)

Excludes1 - never coded here

pyeloureteritis cystica (N28.85)

Includes

pyelonephritis