ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N99 › N99.11 Postprocedural urethral stricture, male › N99.115

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2017 onwards.

What has happened to this code

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 N99 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified

Excludes2 - not included here

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

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.

• Ankylurethria
• Pinhole meatus
• Pinpoint > meatus
• Narrowing > urethra
• Constriction > urethra
• Obliteration > urethra
• Stricture > urinary meatus
• Stenosis, stenotic > urethra
• Occlusion, occluded > urethra
• Stricture > meatus > urinarius
• Stricture > urethra > postoperative
• Stricture > urethra > postcatheterization
• Adhesions, adhesive > postoperative > urethra
• Contraction, contracture, contracted > urethra
• Complication > male genital > postprocedural or postoperative
• Complication > genitourinary > postprocedural > urethral stricture
• Stricture > urethra > postprocedural > male > fossa navicularis

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N99.110	Postprocedural urethral stricture, male, meatal	Valid
N99.111	Postprocedural bulbous urethral stricture, male	Valid
N99.112	Postprocedural membranous urethral stricture, male	Valid
N99.113	Postprocedural anterior bulbous urethral stricture, male	Valid
N99.114	Postprocedural urethral stricture, male, unspecified	Valid
N99.116	Postprocedural urethral stricture, male, overlapping sites	Valid