ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N30-N39 › N35.8 Other urethral stricture › N35.81

N35.81

Other urethral stricture, 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, FY2019 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 6 more specific codes instead:

  • N35.811 Other urethral stricture, male, meatal
  • N35.812 Other bulbous urethral stricture, male
  • N35.813 Other membranous urethral stricture, male
  • N35.814 Other anterior urethral stricture, male
  • N35.816 Other urethral stricture, male, overlapping sites
  • N35.819 Other urethral stricture, male, unspecified site

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2019 to now.

  1. FY2019 Added to the code set Other urethral stricture, 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

CodeDescriptionStatus
N35.82 Other urethral stricture, female Valid