ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N30-N39 › N36 Other disorders of urethra › N36.5
Urethral false passage
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Urethral false passage
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 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-)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- False > passage, urethra
- Passage > false, urethra
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N36.0 | Urethral fistula | Valid |
| N36.1 | Urethral diverticulum | Valid |
| N36.2 | Urethral caruncle | Valid |
| N36.4 | Urethral functional and muscular disorders | Not billable |
| N36.8 | Other specified disorders of urethra | Valid |
| N36.9 | Urethral disorder, unspecified | Valid |