ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N70-N77 › N76 Other inflammation of vagina and vulva › N76.1

N76.1

Subacute and chronic vaginitis

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 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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Subacute and chronic vaginitis

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 N76 Other inflammation of vagina and vulva

Excludes2 - not included here

  • senile (atrophic) vaginitis (N95.2)
  • vulvar vestibulitis (N94.810)

Use additional code

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

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-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
N76.0 Acute vaginitis Valid
N76.2 Acute vulvitis Valid
N76.3 Subacute and chronic vulvitis Valid
N76.4 Abscess of vulva Valid
N76.5 Ulceration of vagina Valid
N76.6 Ulceration of vulva Valid
N76.8 Other specified inflammation of vagina and vulva Not billable