ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N30-N39 › N36 Other disorders of urethra › N36.8
Other specified disorders of urethra
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 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 Other specified disorders of urethra
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.
- Lump
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Cicatrix
- Retained
- Congestive
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Malakoplakia
- Leukokeratosis
- Dilated, dilation
- Yellow > jaundice
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Falling, falls > any organ or part
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Perforation, perforated > pelvic > organ > urethra
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Hydrourethra
- Urethrorrhagia
- Colic > urethral
- Urinoma, urethra
- Erosion > urethra
- Cicatrix > urethra
- Cyst > suburethral
- Eversion > urethra
- Tortuous > urethra
- Ectropion > urethra
- Granuloma > urethra
- Cyst > Skene's gland
- Dilatation > urethra
- Cyst > Cowper's gland
Showing 40 of 61 index phrases.
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 |
| N36.5 | Urethral false passage | Valid |
| N36.9 | Urethral disorder, unspecified | Valid |