ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N70-N77 › N76 Other inflammation of vagina and vulva › N76.5
Ulceration of vagina
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 Ulceration of vagina
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.
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > vagina
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N76.0 | Acute vaginitis | Valid |
| N76.1 | Subacute and chronic vaginitis | Valid |
| N76.2 | Acute vulvitis | Valid |
| N76.3 | Subacute and chronic vulvitis | Valid |
| N76.4 | Abscess of vulva | Valid |
| N76.6 | Ulceration of vulva | Valid |
| N76.8 | Other specified inflammation of vagina and vulva | Not billable |