Acute salpingitis and oophoritis

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

N70.01 Acute salpingitis
N70.02 Acute oophoritis
N70.03 Acute salpingitis and oophoritis

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 salpingitis and oophoritis

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 N70 Salpingitis and oophoritis

Excludes1 - never coded here

gonococcal infection (A54.24)
tuberculous infection (A18.17)

Use additional code

code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent

Includes

abscess (of) fallopian tube
abscess (of) ovary
pyosalpinx
salpingo-oophoritis
tubo-ovarian abscess
tubo-ovarian inflammatory disease

Inherited from the N70-N77 section Inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs (N70-N77)

Excludes1 - never coded here

inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs complicating:
abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.0)
pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O23.-, O75.3, O85, O86.-)

Code also

, if applicable, pelvic abscess (K6A.0-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N70.1	Chronic salpingitis and oophoritis	Not billable
N70.9	Salpingitis and oophoritis, unspecified	Not billable