ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N30-N39 › N codes › N37
Urethral disorders in diseases classified elsewhere
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 Urethral disorders in diseases classified elsewhere
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.
This code
Excludes1 - never coded here
- urethritis (in):
- candidal infection (B37.41)
- chlamydial (A56.01)
- gonorrhea (A54.01)
- syphilis (A52.76)
- trichomonal infection (A59.03)
- tuberculosis (A18.13)
Code first
- underlying disease
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.
- Ankylurethria
- Pinhole meatus
- Pinpoint > meatus
- Narrowing > urethra
- Constriction > urethra
- Obliteration > urethra
- Stricture > urinary meatus
- Stenosis, stenotic > urethra
- Occlusion, occluded > urethra
- Stricture > meatus > urinarius
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > urethra
- Stricture > urethra > associated with schistosomiasis