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N77

Vulvovaginal ulceration and inflammation in diseases classified elsewhere

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 2 more specific codes instead:

  • N77.0 Ulceration of vulva in diseases classified elsewhere
  • N77.1 Vaginitis, vulvitis and vulvovaginitis in diseases classified elsewhere

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Vulvovaginal ulceration and inflammation in diseases classified elsewhere

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 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-)