ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N40-N53 › N46.02 Azoospermia due to extratesticular causes › N46.022
Azoospermia due to infection
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 Azoospermia due to infection
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 N46 Male infertility
Excludes1 - never coded here
- vasectomy status (Z98.52)
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.
- Aspermia
- Sterility
- Necrospermia
- Aspermatogenesis
- Arrest, arrested > spermatogenesis
- Azoospermia > due to > infection
- Infertility > male > azoospermia > extratesticular cause > infection
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N46.021 | Azoospermia due to drug therapy | Valid |
| N46.023 | Azoospermia due to obstruction of efferent ducts | Valid |
| N46.024 | Azoospermia due to radiation | Valid |
| N46.025 | Azoospermia due to systemic disease | Valid |
| N46.029 | Azoospermia due to other extratesticular causes | Valid |