Urethral stricture, unspecified

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Billable FY2016 to FY2018, and a category header from FY2019.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

N35.91 Urethral stricture, unspecified, male (also a header)
N35.92 Unspecified urethral stricture, female

Use instead:

N35.911 Unspecified urethral stricture, male, meatal stated for FY2018
N35.912 Unspecified bulbous urethral stricture, male stated for FY2018
N35.913 Unspecified membranous urethral stricture, male stated for FY2018
N35.914 Unspecified anterior urethral stricture, male stated for FY2018
N35.916 Unspecified urethral stricture, male, overlapping sites stated for FY2018
N35.919 Unspecified urethral stricture, male, unspecified site stated for FY2018

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Urethral stricture, unspecified
FY2019 Stopped being billable

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
N35.0	Post-traumatic urethral stricture	Not billable
N35.1	Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified	Not billable
N35.8	Other urethral stricture	Not billable