ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N80-N98 › N81 Female genital prolapse › N81.6
Rectocele
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 Rectocele
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 N81 Female genital prolapse
Excludes1 - never coded here
- genital prolapse complicating pregnancy, labor or delivery (O34.5-)
- prolapse and hernia of ovary and fallopian tube (N83.4-)
- prolapse of vaginal vault after hysterectomy (N99.3)
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.
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Herniation
- Mortification
- Sarcoepiplocele
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Gangrene, gangrenous > hernia
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated
- Rupture, ruptured > obstructed
- Hernia, hernial > with > gangrene
- Falling, falls > any organ or part
- Hernia, hernial > with > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > with > obstruction
- Incarceration, incarcerated > hernia
- Strangulation, strangulated > hernia
- Incarceration, incarcerated > rupture
- Strangulation, strangulated > rupture
- Hernia, hernial > with > incarceration
- Hernia, hernial > with > strangulation
- Hernia, hernial > intestine, intestinal
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated > with gangrene
- Rupture, ruptured > nontraumatic, meaning hernia
- Strangulation, strangulated > stomach due to hernia
- Incarceration, incarcerated > hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > intestine > with hernia
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > fecal > with hernia
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > gangrenous
- Strangulation, strangulated > stomach due to hernia > with gangrene
- Strangulation, strangulated > intestine > with hernia > with gangrene
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Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N81.0 | Urethrocele | Valid |
| N81.1 | Cystocele | Not billable |
| N81.2 | Incomplete uterovaginal prolapse | Valid |
| N81.3 | Complete uterovaginal prolapse | Valid |
| N81.4 | Uterovaginal prolapse, unspecified | Valid |
| N81.5 | Vaginal enterocele | Valid |
| N81.8 | Other female genital prolapse | Not billable |
| N81.9 | Female genital prolapse, unspecified | Valid |