Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male

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 6 more specific codes instead:

N35.111 Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male, meatal
N35.112 Postinfective bulbous urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male
N35.113 Postinfective membranous urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male
N35.114 Postinfective anterior urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male
N35.116 Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male, overlapping sites
N35.119 Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male, 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 Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, male

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
N35.12	Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified, female	Valid