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N99

Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified

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 9 more specific codes instead:

  • N99.0 Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure
  • N99.1 Postprocedural urethral stricture (also a header)
  • N99.2 Postprocedural adhesions of vagina
  • N99.3 Prolapse of vaginal vault after hysterectomy
  • N99.4 Postprocedural pelvic peritoneal adhesions
  • N99.5 Complications of stoma of urinary tract (also a header)
  • N99.6 Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a genitourinary system organ or structure complicating a procedure (also a header)
  • N99.7 Accidental puncture and laceration of a genitourinary system organ or structure during a procedure (also a header)
  • N99.8 Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system (also a header)

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 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

  • irradiation cystitis (N30.4-)
  • postoophorectomy osteoporosis with current pathological fracture (M80.8-)
  • postoophorectomy osteoporosis without current pathological fracture (M81.8)