Post-traumatic urethral stricture

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 2 more specific codes instead:

N35.01 Post-traumatic urethral stricture, male (also a header)
N35.02 Post-traumatic urethral stricture, female (also a header)

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 Post-traumatic urethral stricture

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 N35 Urethral stricture

Excludes1 - never coded here

congenital urethral stricture (Q64.3-)
postprocedural urethral stricture (N99.1-)

Inherited from the N30-N39 section Other diseases of the urinary system (N30-N39)

Excludes2 - not included here

urinary infection (complicating):
abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8)
pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O23.-, O75.3, O86.2-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N35.1	Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified	Not billable
N35.8	Other urethral stricture	Not billable
N35.9	Urethral stricture, unspecified	Not billable