Acute prostatitis

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Acute prostatitis

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 N41 Inflammatory diseases of prostate

Use additional code

code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent.

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.

Periprostatitis
Infection, infected, infective > prostate
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > prostate
Prostatitis > acute

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N41.1	Chronic prostatitis	Valid
N41.2	Abscess of prostate	Valid
N41.3	Prostatocystitis	Valid
N41.4	Granulomatous prostatitis	Valid
N41.8	Other inflammatory diseases of prostate	Valid
N41.9	Inflammatory disease of prostate, unspecified	Valid