ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N40-N53 › N40 Benign prostatic hyperplasia › N40.3
Nodular prostate with lower urinary tract symptoms
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 Nodular prostate with lower urinary tract symptoms
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 N40 Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Excludes1 - never coded here
- benign neoplasms of prostate (adenoma, benign) (fibroadenoma) (fibroma) (myoma) (D29.1)
Excludes2 - not included here
- malignant neoplasm of prostate (C61)
Includes
- adenofibromatous hypertrophy of prostate
- benign hypertrophy of the prostate
- benign prostatic hypertrophy
- BPH
- enlarged prostate
- nodular prostate
- polyp of prostate
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.
- Node
- Retained
- Prostatism
- Median > bar
- Stasis > urine
- Stoppage > urine
- Retention > bladder
- Myoadenoma, prostate
- Adenomyoma > prostate
- Bar, median, prostate
- Adenofibroma > prostate
- Polyp, polypus > prostate
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > prostate
- Benign > prostatic hyperplasia
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > median bar
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > prostate
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > median bar
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > prostate
- Retention > urine > due to hyperplasia of prostate
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > adenofibromatous, prostate
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > urinary > due to hyperplasia of prostate
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > bladder-neck > due to hyperplasia of prostate
- Nodule, nodular > prostate > with lower urinary tract symptoms
- Enlargement, enlarged > prostate > with lower urinary tract symptoms > nodular
- Enlargement, enlarged > prostate > nodular > with lower urinary tract symptoms
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic > prostate > with lower urinary tract symptoms > nodular
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic > prostate > nodular > with lower urinary tract symptoms
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N40.0 | Benign prostatic hyperplasia without lower urinary tract symptoms | Valid |
| N40.1 | Benign prostatic hyperplasia with lower urinary tract symptoms | Valid |
| N40.2 | Nodular prostate without lower urinary tract symptoms | Valid |